Airspeed (1998)

As a licensed aircraft mechanic, with over 20 years of experience working on commercial aircraft including the Boeing 727, where do I begin to point out the technical errors in this movie, but I'll take a swing at with my top 10. 1. This aircraft is designed to protect its occupants from lightning strikes. A lightning strike taking out the pilots is a ridiculous premise upon which to base an air disaster movie. 2. The controls for the autopilot are above the center console, where both pilots can reach it. Not above the captain's control column. 3. The auto pilot gets "scambled" and is guiding the aircraft into a imminent crash into the airport. The autopilot is electronic and must have power to function; if you want to disengage it, pull the circuit breaker that's readily available in the flight deck. Pull the breaker and there's no more power for the system that is guiding it into the ground. 4. The Boeing 727 has 3 engines, there were only 2 thrust control levers in the movie's flight deck. 5. Air traffic controller (ATC) was left to give instruction and technical details about the aircraft, no pilot or technical personnel were brought in to help. 6. Air-to-air fueling boom was manipulated sideways, not possible. Cannot even maneuver in horizontal direction from the aircraft and it would have been torn loose long before fill extension. 7. Nose wheel well pressure panel, through which 3 persons were evacuated, only had 4 screws in it. such a panel would require at least 20 screws and is much smalller than was shown. 8. ATC said the autopilot was in the back of the aircraft. Auto pilot computer is in the E & E bay, located behind the nose wheel well, which is exactly where the pressure panel they removed would have lead. (oh, since I am anready in the wheel well, I might as well remove the autopilot computer to prevent us from crashing into the airport.) 9. Only 1 pilot was flying the tanker, there are 2 pilots. (Gee, one of those pilots could have been transfered to the B727 to land it.) 10. Any ATC would have known that the readios on an aicraft used for voice communications is called a communications radio or comm radio for short, not a communicator (or was this really a Star Trek episode).

Joe must have needed money for a new car or something.....this by far was the worst movie I ever watched....acting was terrible, writing was so bad.....technical plot was joke.....the child actor was so bad.......the control tower scenes were a Joke....The plane landing without flaps would have been coming in around 3-400 mph......there would have been a ball of fire.......god was this bad. How this got 3 1/2 starts is any body's guess......On top of everything else....a 727 only has three engines.....most of the movie showed a 707.....the producer and director ought to be shot.....who was the technical adviser.....he must fly Cesna 150's......other blooper was the only plane that could have made the transfer is a C-130 with rear cargo door....and the aircraft pictured in the movie didn't resemble it at all......Geez my intelligence has been so insulted.

Rated it 1 only because 0 not available. The girl is pathetically pathetic, the parents are pathetic, the tower crew is pathetic, the pilot of the tanker is pathetic. Ever seen a plane being refueled from the SIDE? The boom is strong enough to support a man? Why not send a pilot to land the crippled plane? Tanker planes don't need indicators or controls, or a co-pilot? I only saw the second half, so I had fun trying to figure out what happened; I speculated that everybody but the girl ate the fish. I expected Paul Ford to come in to talk her down, and fall out of the tower. I kept waiting for Steven Segal. I wanted Montegna to apologize for all the time away from home with the Bureau. I figured the girl would be as effective using the bat on the controls as she was on the boom. But the best part of all is the perfect stop, nowhere near the run-out area, even though the plane came in far too fast, and she took f-o-r-e-v-e-r to throttle back and pop the flaps. Thank somebody for great brakes. Movie must have been made with the intent of it being a tax shelter. If you have the choice, pick the swine flu--it would be less painful.

The movie "Air Speed" was a terrible movie. The Story was badly written. You knew the girl was going to land the plane. You just did not know how the writers would get you there. She lands the plane as smooth as silk like she did it often. The research for this movie was terrible. The attempts of rescues were impossible in real life. The Air Force pilot look like he was fly inside a blue box. The movie was so bad I was enjoying by watching on how bad it was going to get. I was not in suspense. I was laughing during the movie because of how corny and unreal it was. I glad I watch on TV instead of haft of paying to go in a movie theater to watch it.