"Pam McCaughey" <
[hidden email]> wrote (Subject: Re: How do you get
into a Mobile? or an Interceptor?):-
> ...- hopefully a UFO2 series/pilot film will address some of these
> concerns properly.
> I've always felt the Interceptor pilots should have been wearing flight
> suits more akin to John Glenn's original suit, with a full helmet and
> breathing apparatus attached. That way, if a pilot had to bail out ...
Ditto. Clearly here, practicality of realism was overridden by the desire in
movies for actors' faces to be visible. A movie also serves to advertise its
actors, and thus actors want to be seen full-face, not impersonally as eyes
behind thick polycarbonate over an opaque oxygen mask. The Interceptor pilot
suit looks to me rather like a real fighter pilot suit minus its oxygen mask,
forgetting that Moonbase was in space and not an ordinary fighter base.
In "Top Gun" the actors had to wear what real fighter pilots wear. But in Star
Wars only the baddies (TIE fighter pilots) wore oxygen masks; the goodies (X-
wing fighter pilots) had crash helmets and uncovered faces. Likewise in
Thunderbirds divers have fullface masks with a big round window despite the
severe dead-space problem that would cause; only one diver, who was a baddie,
had an opaque mouth-and-nose mask inside his fullface mask like most real
divers would have preferred. Similar applies with the liquid-breathing diving
suit in "Abyss". Likeways also, in the Judge Dredd movie. Dredd appears
sometimes bare-face, even though he never ever does that in the comic: need
for the actor's face (Sylvester Stallone) to be seen dominated even there.
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