I seem to remember a quote from a novice pilot just before the Battle-of-Britain; asked to fly his Spitfire out over the English Channel and ‘get the feel’ of the guns being fired he forgot to rotate the safety bezel on the firing-button and returned (having not fired a single round) thinking ‘they are very silent these guns’!

LMAO!

You must remember that aircraft in films operate to different laws of physics compared to real world aeroplanes.

The usual failure mode is for them to enter a VNE dive whilst making a noise like a Stuka, and for which the appropriate crew recovery action is for one member of each sex to jointly heave back on a control yoke as hard as possible.

Moggy

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