![]() ![]() The F-111 has a ferry range of about 3,500 miles with external tanks, but that is still short of the nearest coast. ![]() Sukhoi Su-34Īfter further research, I found an American side-by-side two-seater: The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark. Obviously, beside the profile of the Su-34 not matching the film’s jet and the Su-34 having two vertical stabilizers to the film jet’s one, since the film is set in 1984 in the midst of the Cold War, it’s unlikely an Su-34 would be on American soil, and the fact that the Su-34 would not take its first flight until 1990 and would not be put into service until 2014 would have made its appearance anachronistic if it appeared in the film. Before further research, the only side-by-side two-seater jet I knew was the Sukhoi Su-34, a Soviet era-developed Russian jet. The Tornado is a two-seater, so that much was correct, but it has a “traditional” front and back seating arrangement, not side-by-side as portrayed in the film. There is also an error with the jet’s cockpit. ![]() However, the Tornado has the ability to conduct aerial refueling which would allow it to reach Cairo, but considering the jet is stolen, nobody would help or know to help Diana and Steve. As the intended flight plan was from the District of Columbia to Cairo, the Tornado would have run out of fuel long before reaching the west coast of Europe or Africa, thus stranding the duo in middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Since sources vary, the Tornado has a ferry range – one-way trip – of about 2,500 miles with external fuel tanks. Panavia Tornado with its wings swept back. There were not many external shots of the jet that was used but it strongly resembles a West German Panavia Tornado at a glance because the jet in the film had two engines, a single vertical stabilizer, two large rectangular intakes, and variable-geometry wings (also known as “swing-wings”). And be sure to check out the I Am Wonder Fan page.The film’s plot notwithstanding, Wonder Woman 1984 had more than a few issues with the scene when Diana (Gal Gadot) and a not-actually-reincarnated-because-his-soul-possessed-another-man’s-body Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) steal a jet from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in order to make the 5,815-mile trip across the Atlantic from Washington, DC to Cairo, Egypt.ĭiscounting the fact that a Great War pilot who flew planes strung together by wood, canvas, and wire somehow knew how to start up and fly a modern jet, and the issue that Diana possessed ability to make an entire jet invisible with her degenerating powers despite noting her only successful prior attempt when at full power was making a coffee mug invisible, there are many holes in Diana and Steve’s plan to take the jet they chose across the Atlantic.įirst off, assuming the Smithsonian Institution had left a fully-fueled (with external drop tanks, no less) and operational military jet on the tarmac for Diana and Steve to take, the duo would still not be able to get close to the west coast of Europe or Africa let alone Egypt. That's all for this week's Wonder Woman Wednesday. It remains to be seen (or unseen) if we'll see (or not see) the invisible plane in the DC Rebirth version of Wonder Woman. I knew I had to get it when Funko Pop released their cool-as-heck Wonder Woman and her Invisible Jet with one of their best versions of Wonder Woman to date, looking much like the Lynda Carter iteration. The invisible jet has always been a cool and unique aspect of Wonder Woman's mythos. Ahem.Īlex Ross did a masterful job of painting (or not painting rather) the invisible plane in his treasury-sized edition of Wonder Woman: Truth, his memorable collaboration with Paul Dini. Then, the plane was transformed into Wonder Woman's hideout becoming the WonderDome. In Post-Crisis on Infinite Earths (What was to be the first of many reboots of the DC Comics Universe), John Byrne re-introduced the invisible jet as a morphing alien crystal. It appeared in the Lynda Carter television series and the animated SuperFreinds in the '70s. ![]() The plane clearly (Haha - pun intended.) has taken its place alongside Wonder Woman in comic book history, having popped up throughout the character's 75-year run. ![]()
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