Corrected entry: The two helicopters arrive at the ice floe seconds after Gant has taken off in the Firefox. None of the pilots or observers hear or see the receding aircraft or its exhaust trail? None of them see the runway flattened out in the surface of the ice? It would be visible! Are people with such poor eyesight allowed to fly helicopters?
Grumpy Scot
8th Feb 2012
Firefox (1982)
28th Feb 2011
Firefox (1982)
Corrected entry: The Firefox was initially shown as a silver / chrome aircraft. When Mitchell Gant lands on the ice cap, the aircraft is black. After he flies away after refueling, it turns back to the original color.
Correction: At no point in the film is the Firefox silver.
27th Aug 2003
Firefox (1982)
Corrected entry: About 5 minutes into the film Clint Eastwood is having a Vietnam flashback where he is being rescued by American aircraft. One plane is a World War II era fighter used more than 20 years before the Vietnam war.
Correction: This is not a mistake, these planes were still used in Vietnam for ground attack as they were far harder for new Russian-made SAM's to home in on. They were nicknamed "Sandies".
Technically, the prop aircraft known as Sandys were A-1 Skyraiders designed and brought into service after WW2.
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Correction: Good points, but essentially meaningless. Had the Soviets seen the Firefox sitting on the ice, they might have tried to destroy it before it could take off, assuming they were armed. Even that is not assured. The choppers attacking a US sub in international waters would be an act of war. Desperate or not, its highly unlikely the USSR would risk that, particularly since the plane was already gone, it would only be a revenge attack.
Grumpy Scot