Escape From New York
Movie (1981)
aka : New York 1997
Starring:
Kurt Russell (Snake Plissken)
Lee Van Cleef (Hauk)
Ernest Borgnine (Cabbie)
Isaac Hayes (The Duke)
1997 : Manhattan is a giant prison, cut from the rest of the world. Unfortunatly, the presidential aircraft fall down there and it's time to recover the First American. A convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue mission.
Fictionnal Aircraft acting as the Boeing VC-137 Air Force One
A model based on the nose of a Boeing 707, the tail of a Convair 240 but with the jet engines put like a DC-9 and clean wings.
On the radar screen, the same aircraft is depicted like a Boeing 737 or so.
Convair 240
A derelic and scrapped aircraft acting as the crashed VC-137.
IAR IS-28B2
The instrument panel is highly irrealistic even for a glider of the next future of sixteen years !
Unidentified Aircraft
A light aircraft is quickly seen towing the IAR glider.
Bell 206 JetRanger
On the right.
Bell UH-1B Iroqouis
Instrument panel of a flying Bell UH-1B Iroqouis.
Bell UH-1D Iroqouis
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