Airplanes:
- If the plane is a bi-plane (two wings, one atop the other) with two open compartment cockpits (one behind the other), at some point one person will have to move from one cockpit to the other while in flight. Apparently, this is the only reason to ever have this type of plane appear in a film.
- If an airplane takes a bullet hit, the hole will always leak some sort of fluid: sometimes fuel, sometimes hydraulic.
- Piston- engine airplanes in the movies are unusually subject to engine failure. This failure mode is unique to filmdom – engine coughs, keeps running, then it sputters, catches again. Hero notices, taps gas gauge, turns lever. Then it stutters exactly three times and stops immediately, including propeller.
- Hero can never get a plane back under control until just before they are about to hit the ground. This is most dramatically shown by having camera on a ridge that shows the airplane disappearing, all going silent, until in an explosion of engine noise it shoots back up over ridge and camera.
- If more than one lead is flying commercial, one of them will profess to be afraid of flying just as airplane’s engines begin to rev up. They will prove this by tightly gripping arm rests. They will also usually request a drink before they are being served.
- ALL male flight attendants are happily out of the closet.
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