Corrected entry: When Bond flies the mini-jet through the hangar, he banks the wings to get through the closing doors, to the point where the wings are vertical as the plane exits the building. The problem is, aircraft are turned by banking the wings; if the wings are banked, the aircraft is turning, and the greater the bank, the tighter the turn. The hangar would have had to be almost u-shaped for Bond to have made it through.
Doc
2nd Sep 2005
Octopussy (1983)
11th Nov 2013
M*A*S*H (1972)
Corrected entry: When Hawkeye and Radar are talking to the recon men, an explosion goes off behind them, with no sound of the incoming shell.
14th Sep 2003
M*A*S*H (1972)
Corrected entry: At the end of the episode, Hawkeye asks Sidney if he's going crazy. Sidney responds, "No. A little farshimelt perhaps, but not crazy." Farshimelt in Yiddish means spoiled, moldy. Sidney probably meant farmisht - mixed up.
Correction: Elsewhere in the series, Hawkeye himself describes mental conditions with the word "moldy", which indeed is the English translation of farshimmelt, see also the German "verschimmelt" of the same meaning. Since obviously to the writers "moldy" was a legitimate if somewhat humorous description of a less-than-optimal mental condition, the word "farshimmelt" is probably not a mistake but an intentional use.
16th Jan 2011
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Corrected entry: Indiana's boat was destroyed by a giant propeller. However, no boat in history has a propeller that is only half submerged in water and the other half in the air.
Correction: Actually, there are a number of legitimate reasons why a ship's propeller may be only partly submerged. Several types of heavy-load ships have their propellers exposed when they carry neither load nor ballast. Almost every type of nuclear submarine has part of its propellers clear of the water when its ballast tanks are blown dry. Since the ship was moored and the propeller turning rather slowly, it was probably supposed to be deballasted for yard repairs and undergoing an engine test.
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Correction: It is perfectly possible to fly a straight line in a vertical-wing position - also known as knife-edge - for a limited time, even near ground level. While it is true that the vector of the wings' lift acts sideways during that, you can compensate that motion by changing the angle of attack with the elevator. At the speed of an airplane, the deflection would be 1-3m max on the length of that hangar anyways. To compensate for the missing lift, you'd use a bit of rudder and the momentum of the plane.
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