Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV News
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsCannes Film FestivalStar WarsAsian Pacific American Heritage MonthSummer Watch GuideSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign In
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Back
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • FAQ
IMDbPro
Fire Birds (1990)

Goofs

Fire Birds

Edit

Continuity

During the final battle with Stoller, Jake and his Apache are directly behind Stoller's Scorpion. However, the impacts from the Hydra rockets are squarely on the side of the Scorpion if it were perpendicular to the Apache.
When Jake and crew are driving around the base in the humvee, the strap on Jake's head moves from over his left eye to covering it completely.

Factual errors

An OH-58D (The helicopter flown by Sean Young's character) can not be flown single-pilot in the left seat. Many of the Mission-Related controls are only available to the Right-hand seat (Pilot-in-command seat.)
The sequence in which Billie shoots the jet fighter hunting her and Little, using a Stinger, makes no sense. Jet fighters would not waste effort to go after the crew of an already downed helicopter. Their job is to eliminate aerial threats, which the crashed Apache no longer fits for. Not to mention that they are very poorly suited for manhunt.
When Chief Little arrives in Fort Mitchell a superior officer salutes him first. Lower ranked officers always salute superior officers first with the the salute returned.
During final combat scenes when Warlock is trying to shoot the jet, his display shows as if he was using an Air To Air missile (Stinger) with a locking system. As soon as he gets the lock he shoots but the following scene shows many unguided rockets (Hydras) firing from the Apache. So not only they are unguided, means no lock available, but also they are not used to shoot at aircraft but ground targets only.
The instructor Pilot sits inside the simulator box with the student, and inputs simulator training data from inside the simulator box , not from the computer room. The Pilot and Gunner are in separate simulator boxes, not in the same box. The computers for the flight simulators use disk drives. Tape drives would be to slow.

Miscellaneous

When Jake is driving the humvee with panties around his head, the material is covering both his eyes. Not that it matters. He would be able to see through the material. An eye patch over his left eye would have done a MUCH better job.

Character error

Military helicopter pilots do not refer to their aircraft as 'airplanes'; 'aircraft' or by its type; perhaps 'chppers', 'copter' even in a less affectionate way, 'eggbeater' but not airplanes.

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content
Fire Birds (1990)
Top Gap
What is the Brazilian Portuguese language plot outline for Fire Birds (1990)?
Answer
  • See more gaps
  • Learn more about contributing
Edit page

More from this title

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb app
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb app
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb app
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.