Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: James R Ebright Subject: Re: Hysterical movie goofs X-Submission-Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 13:56:45 EST References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@royko.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: <9212181856.AA06323@bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: kls@royko.Chicago.COM Date: 20 Dec 92 16:08:07 CST >I was just watching a movie on TV ("Gotcha"). One of the characters >flew to Paris, and there was the obligatory "airplane landing" shot to >establish that he "really flew" there... > >...on an Air France Cargo 747. (The side titles very clearly had three >words, though the last was hard to read; however, the "under-nose" >titles indicated the 747 cargo variant with a nose door.) > >Wonder what the in-flight meal was... About eight years ago I flew LAX to CDG direct on Air Chance and it was ACTUALLY a CARGO 747 with one cabin (appx 80 seats) of passengers. The in-flight meal was normal US airline food...quite a let down from normal Air Chance fare -- so much so, it prompted me to complain in writing. (Why else fly AF except for the food?) -- Jim Ebright (james.ebright@osu.edu) "Spam, eggs, sausage and spam - that's not got much spam in it." >>> All kids can be educated -- even yours and mine. <<<