History Main / LandingGearShot

Presumably this is so the geographically inept in the audience understand that Los Angeles isn't just down the road from New York, and that Berlin or Cairo are even farther than that. Lazy editors can make this even worse by using StockFootage of a plane that's no longer in commercial service, or painted for an airline that's since gone defunct.

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* In ''Film/{{Snatch}}'' when Cousin Avi travels from New York to London, and again when he returns to New York. Both times, the footage is part of a brief, [[SmashCut frenetic]] montage of the whole trip, including a passport getting stamped and Avi downing a drink on the plane.
* Parodied in ''Film/WaynesWorld 2'', which goes even further by having the footage of a flying plane (obviously a toy hanging from a wire) simply ''mirrored'' to show that it was going back to America, with the the writing on the plane even being back to front. All entirely intentional, of course, as the characters lampshade the various ways the film has cut corners to save having to actually film in a foreign country.
* Parodied in ''Film/{{Freaked}}'', where the plane explodes on touchdown. Luckily the [[ContractualImmortality main characters took an earlier flight]].
* Even the ''Film/JamesBond'' films have done this one.

* In ''Film/ThirteenDays'', the shot of the wheels of a taking off B-52 is used to indicate when DEFCON 2 has been ordered.
* ''Film/FightClub'' has a few shots of planes landing and taking off in the scene where the Narrator is chasing after Tyler. It works in this instance, as the shots are overlaid with a monologue of what the Narrator is going through at the time.

* ''Series/MacGyver1985'' did this one when a villain went to Paris.

* ''Series/{{Banacek}}'': Used in "Now You See Me, Now You Don't" to establish that Banacek has travelled from Los Angeles to Los Vegas.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' shows us a fighter plane’s undercarriage whenever it approaches the carrier for an arrested landing.

* Everett from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} 2''.

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* Film/FightClub has a few shots of planes landing and taking off in the scene where the Narrator is chasing after Tyler. It works in this instance, as the shots are overlaid with a monologue of what the Narrator is going through at the time.

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* ''Series/MacGyver'' did this one when a villain went to Paris.

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Presumably this is so the [[ViewersAreMorons geographically inept]] in the audience understand that Los Angeles isn't just down the road from New York, and that Berlin or Cairo are even farther than that. Lazy editors can make this even worse by using StockFootage of a plane that's no longer in commercial service, or painted for an airline that's since gone defunct.

* Film/FightClub has a few shots of planes landing and taking off in the scene where the Narrator is chasing after Tyler. It works in this instance, as the shots are overlaid with a monologue of what the Narrrator is going through at the time.

* Parodied in ''WaynesWorld 2'', which goes even further by having the footage of a flying plane (obviously a toy hanging from a wire) simply ''mirrored'' to show that it was going back to America, with the the writing on the plane even being back to front. All entirely intentional, of course, as the characters lampshade the various ways the film has cut corners to save having to actually film in a foreign country.
* Parodied in ''{{Freaked}}'', where the plane explodes on touchdown. Luckily the [[ContractualImmortality main characters took an earlier flight]].

* FightClub has a few shots of planes landing and taking off in the scene where the Narrator is chasing after Tyler. It works in this instance, as the shots are overlaid with a monologue of what the Narrrator is going through at the time.

* Happens several times in ''{{Destinos}}: An Introduction To Spanish''.

* In ''{{Snatch}}'' when Cousin Avi travels from New York to London, and again when he returns to New York. Both times, the footage is part of a brief, [[SmashCut frenetic]] montage of the whole trip, including a passport getting stamped and Avi downing a drink on the plane.

* Even the ''JamesBond'' films have done this one.

* Parodied in ''WaynesWorld 2'', which goes even further by having the footage of a flying plane ''mirrored'' to show that it was going back to America. (You can tell because the writing on the plane is backwards.)
** Not to mention that the plane wasn't even real. It was a toy. Look closely and you can see a wire holding it up.
*** Which was all entirely intentional. The characters' faces were never seen in the "on location" shots, while they expressed amazement that the studio paid for the trip to London rather than hiring stand-ins and just having the characters' faces never seen in the "on location" shots.

* In ''{{Snatch}}'' when Cousin Avi travels from New York to London, and again when he returns to New York. Both times, the footage is part of a brief montage of the whole trip, including a passport getting stamped and Avi downing a drink on the plane.