Jarhead
 

I`m not really an expert on this, but my question goes to you....

I noticed on the film-clip for Jarhead that there was a TWA 747. But thing that made me wonder is that I don`t remember them having a 747 with the stretched upper deck.

Am I wrong or is this major error in the movie?

'stretched upper deck'??

I haven't seen the preview you speak of, but I do know that TWA never had 747-300s or -400s, so there was no way they could have had an aircraft with a streched upper deck (links included later for the previous poster).

I don't consider this a major error though. It's Hollywood, they're not looking for realism! Besides, how many people besides yourself would/could have caught it?


B747 "original" upper deck:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?i...next_id=996009

B747 "streched" upper deck:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?i...next_id=996073

>I noticed on the film-clip for Jarhead that there was a TWA 747

What I thought was interesting was in the TRAILER the planes were United metal, but in the film they were TWA.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/univer...ad/tlarge.html

Watch closely during "Good luck now, Good bye now..." :)

Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada

I take back what I posted earlier - I just saw the trailer, and that had not one but two really big errors in it:

Error 1: Winglets on the UA B747s - making them 744s, which didn't exist back during Gulf War I.

Error 2: The huge Star Alliance logo on the UA planes - didn't exist yet either.

Oh, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but didn't UA have its white with orange and blue stripes livery back then?

744s were delivered starting early 1989. UA had taken delivery 8 copies by end of 1990.

Urgh. Hollywood.

I haven't seen the movie, but PLEASE tell me that any scenes inside the 747 were not whisper-quiet as well.

If Steven Segal came through on his way to another action-scene, well, that's OK, we have to combine and save $$ as much as possible, after all.

I am pretty sure that UA had the white with orange and blue stripes livery back then too. I too noticed the huge Star Alliance logo next to the door, but I didnt see the words "United Airlines" on any of the obvious United planes. I think the only planes that still had logos were the TWA ones.

There was also a jet that was almost certainly Delta, but it also had its logos removed.

I guess there's no harm in advertising for TWA since that airline no longer exists. Anyone else who wanted their logos displayed would probably have had to pay for it.

Always thought that TWA flew 747-200s... those only have 3 rows on the top deck, IIRC

re: using TWA, I'm pretty sure that AA would own any naming rights to them and would need to be compensated accordingly..

Again, I need to clarify that in the FILM the planes are all TWA. It's only the trailer that they're UAL metal. So obvioulsy for one reason or another they digitally altered them between the two.

Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada