TPAnx From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 1021 posts, RR: 1 Posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1304 times:
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Two TV ads I've seen recently raise my eyebrows.
One's the IPOD ad featuring a pilot..bemoaning a three hour wx delay on a DTW-ORD run. He opens up his IPOd, calls up a weather site,.."sees that the showers have passed the airport" asks dispatch to "take another look at the weather" and a half hour later..gets clearance to go.
The other's the one featuring a Ford pickup..carried in the cargo hold of a twin-engine prop or turbo prop plane.( Don't
recognize the type) The rear ramp's lowered...the truck, attached to a reel of chain..is backed from the moving plane onto
the runway...where it "brakes the 30-thousand pound plane to a stop."
Your thoughts??
TPAnx (who will press the preview and post buttons, and pray)
AirTranTUS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1242 times:
This video shows the making of the commercial, with the commercial at the end.
Stopping the airplane doesn't impress me much, since it is an unlikely scenario. What I would rather see is how much distance it takes to stop the truck pulling ~2 tons from 45 mph. The commercial as it stands is basically fluff with no information for the real world.
Quoting TPAnx (Thread starter): One's the IPOD ad featuring a pilot..bemoaning a three hour wx delay on a DTW-ORD run. He opens up his IPOd, calls up a weather site,.."sees that the showers have passed the airport" asks dispatch to "take another look at the weather" and a half hour later..gets clearance to go.
I bet any dispatcher would call BS on that one. Showers passing the airport doesn't mean much. I would have thought Apple would have done better reasearch
CAETravlr From United States of America, joined Oct 2000, 898 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1207 times:
And isn't there a commercial (for a tire company?) that shows a JAL 777 landing?
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't have the decency to thank her. - W.C. Fields
Falstaff From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 5673 posts, RR: 29 Reply 4, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1191 times:
Quoting AirTranTUS (Reply 2): Stopping the airplane doesn't impress me much, since it is an unlikely scenario. What I would rather see is how much distance it takes to stop the truck pulling ~2 tons from 45 mph. The commercial as it stands is basically fluff with no information for the real world.
Looks like one upsmanship if you ask me. Back in 1988 or 89 Chevrolet had a truck commercial with a 1/2 ton pickup towing a 18 wheeler. I actually saw it done once too. But it was a lot slower than in the TV ad. Chevy's can tow a semi-tractor trailer and Fords can stop and airplane.
Quoting AF340 (Reply 1): Oh, and we have those SAAB commercials explaining how they 're so good because they make planes.
I've seen those. Born from Jets... Makes me think of a SAAB 340. When they compare them to the jet, do they even use a SAAB jet?
Quoting TPAnx (Thread starter): carried in the cargo hold of a twin-engine prop or turbo prop plane.( Don't
recognize the type)
Moose135 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 2009 posts, RR: 12 Reply 5, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1178 times:
Quoting CAETravlr (Reply 3): And isn't there a commercial (for a tire company?) that shows a JAL 777 landing?
Yes, that is a Bridgestone Tire commercial.
Quoting Falstaff (Reply 4):
I've seen those. Born from Jets... Makes me think of a SAAB 340. When they compare them to the jet, do they even use a SAAB jet?
Mestrugo From Chile, joined Apr 2007, 237 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1172 times:
And don't forget that commercial about that VW Touareg pulling a piece of atrezzo for a movie based on a 747.
Looks like SUV ads' messages are kinda like "Our car is all macho since it can do stupid things you'll never ever do in real life, and machos are stupid". Or something.
C172pic From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 77 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1138 times:
Bridgestone/JAL commercial is cool, believable and classy, I APPROVE THIS AD!
Stupid Iphone commercial, I want to know what airline or operator is that, that uniform looks FAKE!!!!!!!!! I was gonna write in to Apple, demanding to know what company's uniform that so-called pilot is using...
Not cool!
If that's a real pilot and uniform, I will be shocked! Uniform just doesn't look right, the tie, epaulets...
Saab commercials annoy me, cars and airplanes not in same class, they must think the US public is really dumb!
PiedmontINT From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 376 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1115 times:
My favorite part about the iPhone commercial with the pilot (other than the fact that whatever airline he works for doesn't have access to weather info) is that he waits until the engines are shut down first before turning on said iPhone... You know, to keep with FAR's and preventing that nasty electromagnetic interference from making the plane explode..
I wonder if the lawyers / PC police threw that in the script to prevent future lawsuits such as the ATA incident a while back?
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