Sunday, December 29, 2024

On Movies

While certain liberties can be taken with space operas.  Films set in the real world (including 2001: A Space Odyssey) should be as realistic as possible as permitted by the film's budget.  My own personal BS alarm went off when I saw the trailer for the second Charlie's Angels flick.  It showed a scene where the main rotor on a helicopter gunship began to self-deploy.  A mechanism for moving rotor blades from the storage position to the operational position would add weight to the aircraft.  This is a bad thing in military aircraft.  If the additional weight wasn't an issue a self-deploy system would still be useless in the operational context for one very good reason.  Every helicopter operated by an air force or army aviation unit comes with something called a ground crew. A unit whose job is to open, close, fold, and unfold components along with performing maintenance on the aircraft.  When I see a BS element in an advertisement for a movie I as a rule usually tend to avoid seeing it. 

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