Continuity and C**k Ups on TV

[classic33]

"He’s the fastest man alive,”

This line is uttered in Top Gun Maverick when Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell achieves Mach 10 in the Darkstar.

The early Apollo astronauts, noticeably Apollo ten were faster still. They travelled two to three times faster. Reaching a peak speed of mach 32.6 on re-entry on the 26th May 1969.

Thomas Patten Stafford the last surviving member of Apollo 10 died on the 18th March 2024, two years after TopGun Maverick was released

 

[figbat]

"He’s the fastest man alive,”

This line is uttered in Top Gun Maverick when Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell achieves Mach 10 in the Darkstar.

The early Apollo astronauts, noticeably Apollo ten were faster still. They travelled two to three times faster. Reaching a peak speed of mach 32.6 on re-entry on the 26th May 1969.

Thomas Patten Stafford the last surviving member of Apollo 10 died on the 18th March 2024, two years after TopGun Maverick was released

And if the enemy were defending an air attack from above and not expecting an attack along the ravine, why were the SAMs sited along the ravine?

 

[classic33]

And if the enemy were defending an air attack from above and not expecting an attack along the ravine, why were the SAMs sited along the ravine?

The probability of a high in, low out is always an option. But there'd be little point in shooting down the attackers after the target had been it. Even if they failed in the attack.

 

[figbat]

And how come Hondo is running ops on the experimental Mach 10 aircraft, then managing the Top Gun candidates, then in charge of the deck crew on the carrier? He gets about.

 

[Drago]

Thomas Patten Stafford the last surviving member of Apollo 10 died on the 18th March 2024, two years after TopGun Maverick was released

He died halfway through the VIP premiere, his final words being "what a load of tosh". The coroners report suggests he simply lost the will to live.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I think it's 633 Squadron, when Officers are watching practice runs, they're leant against/get back into a Series 1 Land-Rover
(design began in 1947/released in April 1948)

 

[Drago]

I think it's 633 Squadron, when Officers are watching practice runs, they're leant against/get back into a Series 1 Land-Rover
(design began in 1947/released in April 1948)

Even worse, in Mosquito Squadron the Nazzies are using Sherman tanks!

Also theres a S1 Landy in Cockelshell Heroes, one of my favourite films.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I think it's 633 Squadron, when Officers are watching practice runs, they're leant against/get back into a Series 1 Land-Rover
(design began in 1947/released in April 1948)

At about 03:00


View: https://youtu.be/D9uW8HgrsKQ?si=fY5ntwfpR1C-YAu1

 

[Drago]

At about 03:00


View: https://youtu.be/D9uW8HgrsKQ?si=fY5ntwfpR1C-YAu1

The thing there is the odds of getting to the crash scene in a Landy without breaking down are very slim.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The thing there is the odds of getting to the crash scene in a Landy without breaking down are very slim.

Certainly in a modern one, yes

 

[Hover Fly]

Not TV or film but radio, Sherlock Holmes is off to somewhere in the South West or the Home Counties, yet the engine pulling his train definitely blows a LMS (possibly Caledonian) style whistle. Hercules Poirot is on the Orient Express, but his train is hauled by possibly the same British engine as Sherlock’s was, 50 years earlier. And the number of trains that were running on continuous welded rail in those days before the 1960s is simply phenomenal.

Taking train nitpicking to a new (low) level.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Hover Fly
Just as 5428 ‘Eric Treacy’ appeared in the (2020) All Creatures Great & Small, during Herriots trip for an interview with Siegfried (1937?)

It wasn’t named such until 1979
(a year after he died, as a memory for his railway photography, & as Bishop of Wakefield)

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Not TV or film but radio, Sherlock Holmes is off to somewhere in the South West or the Home Counties, yet the engine pulling his train definitely blows a LMS (possibly Caledonian) style whistle. Hercules Poirot is on the Orient Express, but his train is hauled by possibly the same British engine as Sherlock’s was, 50 years earlier. And the number of trains that were running on continuous welded rail in those days before the 1960s is simply phenomenal.

Taking train nitpicking to a new (low) level.

Impressive level of pedantry!!!


I know someone who would appreciate that sort of thing!
but he is mostly into buses - I dread to think of the things he could up with for this thread
and I am too scared to ask him!!

 

[Hover Fly]

@Hover Fly
Just as 5428 ‘Eric Treacy’ appeared in the (2020) All Creatures Great & Small, during Herriots trip for an interview with Siegfried (1937?)

It wasn’t named such until 1979
(a year after he died, as a memory for his railway photography, & as Bishop of Wakefield)

At least there was a {slight} chance of a 5 working in the yorkshire dales in 1937.
Eric Treacy died on Appleby (West) in 1978 awaiting the appearance of Evening Star, I was furher down the line at Armathwaite, having cycled up overnight.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

At least there was a {slight} chance of a 5 working in the yorkshire dales in 1937.
Eric Treacy died on Appleby (West) in 1978 awaiting the appearance of Evening Star, I was furher down the line at Armathwaite, having cycled up overnight.

Wakefield has a 'Treacy Hall' behind the Cathedral, with the official ecclesiastical portrait inside it, but no railway photographs
We used to go in there a lot, when our daughter was in the Cathedral choir