The top mistakes in The Final Countdown http://www.moviemistakes.com/film476 en Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:56:13 +0000 12051 During the dogfight with the Japanese Zeroes, the ordnance hung on the two F-14s' weapon stations keep changing. For the weapons to change, the airplanes would have had to land and re-arm about four times during the two-minute dogfight. 136801 When Lasky heads toward the conning tower, an F8 Crusader is shown at left (and the helicopter nose has a number "3" on it). As he is led inside the tower, the camera pans up, and now the Crusader is gone, replaced by an AWACS Hawkeye (and the number "3" on the heli is gone, too). 136835 There are two F-14s that deal with the yacht and the two Zeros. They are respectively numbered 202 and 203 prominently on both sides of their forward fuselages. But when one fires a missile to down the second Zero, suddenly it is number 200, a jet that hasn't been launched. 127314 When the Marines shoot the Japanese pilot, you can see the wire used to set off the blood bags coming out of his pants leg as he falls. 136797 A helicopter ferries Lasky to the Nimitz, but as it takes off, it is marked as unit 9010, but in flight after passing the Arizona Memorial, it is unit 9717.