Corrected entry: After the opening scenes in which the American soldiers have defeated the German troops on the island off the coast of Scotland, there is a still photo of the American troops, Hellboy and Professor Broom in a group shot. In the picture there are at least two black soldiers among the group. Since this took place in 1944, the U.S. Army was very much segregated and there is no way black and white soldiers would have been in the same combat units together, much less on a "secret" mission.
Gary Hahn
19th Feb 2006
Hellboy (2004)
25th Dec 2004
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Corrected entry: When Dennis Quaid and his co-pilot are going through the pre-flight checklist, they come to the cockpit windows and state that they're "shut and locked". A few seconds later, in an external shot, the co-pilot's window is wide open.
Correction: The window is wide open throughout the scene. Townes and his copilot use the preflight check list as an excuse for some macho banter, and neglect such vital procedures as checking that control surface pins are removed (maybe that's why they crashed!) and that engine and hydraulic oil pressure is sufficient for take off. They shouldn't have done things the way they did, but that just makes it a series of character errors.
25th Dec 2004
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Corrected entry: When discussing building a new plane, Frank Towns observes that the remaining engine puts out "2000 pounds of thrust." A piston aircraft engine's power is measured in horsepower; "pounds of thrust" would be used to measure the power of a jet engine.
Correction: If you do a search in google on "prop" "pounds" and "thrust" you can find many websites discussing propeller engines and the pounds of thrust they produce. Horsepower means nothing when you need to understand how much thrust will be produced and its effect on the new aircraft that is much smaller than the engine was built for.
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Correction: I think it far more likely whoever was in charge of this highly secret and unusual mission would pick the best soldiers he could get, no matter what color.
Grumpy Scot