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* Averted in ''[[Catch-22]]'': The legendary Hollywood stunt pilot Frank Tallman put together an entire squadron of 24 B-25 bombers for the film. Even the camera plane was a B-25 with a special optical glass nose.
* ''[[Stealth]]''
** The F-37s would never be able to take off from a carrier. Aside from being based on a somewhat dubious concept aircraft which would likely have trouble transitioning between wing angles, there's the minor issue that they're apparently all but VTOL-capable, swing-wing CATOBAR aircraft with comically gigantic missile loadouts and utterly insane range; there's no way an aircraft with such a laundry list of capabilities would be able to take off from a standard ''Nimitz'' catapult, and it's doubtful if it could do so at all, especially not with the stated empty weight of nine metric tons for a 70-foot aircraft. And even if all that weren't true, there's the small matter of their rear landing gear being secured to the carrier's deck with tie-down chains when they're on the catapult. Although it's worth mentioning Northrop-Grumann believed the aerodynamic concept might be feasible and as such has taken steps to ensure they had complete control over the forward swept swing wing design for the next two decades by [https://web.archive.org/web/20120627034054/http://www.google.com/patents?id=iRQXAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false patenting it] in 2000.
** There's also the infamous exploding plane scene, where Jessica Biel punches out seconds before her plane explodes (it's not clear why, since she had a long countdown during which she stayed in the plane) and a massive, ridiculous cloud of burning wreckage proceeds to ''chase her''. The sheer ''amount'' of wreckage rather suggests she was carrying a C-130 in her internal bay.
** Slightly less obvious but equally hilarious case is how titular characters (planes, that is) are shown to outfly Su-37's using exactly the kind of cool supermaneuver [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ALt3m3Kkhw those very Su-37s introduce in real life]. Somewhy ''russkies'' only know to flight in straight lines in the scene. At least the film miraclously get su-37's right (apart from 27's).
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