Like fine wine, it's a movie that improves with time.

https://www.indiewire.com/2013/06/je...effect-127727/



On 4/22/20 8:44 AM, kinsell wrote:
Con Air with Nicolas Cage had one of the cheesiest crash scenes ever.
They took a junker C-123K transport plane, put it on rails, and slammed
it into the Sands Hotel in Vegas for the grand finale. That was before
the hotel was imploded in real life.

They actually used three different planes in the filming, one was
outfitted with a diesel engine from a bus along with its automatic
transmission, driving the nose wheel.Â* It was used to film taxiing
scenes , now open to visitors at the Wendover UT airport, which was a
monster air base used for training nuclear bomber crews in WW II.

A third plane was privately owned, airworthy, which crashed in Denali
National Park after the filming.Â* With Hollywood magic, it looked huge
on the inside, with two decks, and cells for prisoner transport.

-Dave