My name is Louis Pemjean and I live in Columbus, OH. I am a long time retired A&P Instruments Technician – and a DC-3 lover. I am addressing you for something trivial but that could be of some interest for a person in the aviation field. I was wondering if any of the pilots that you meet have mentioned the following.

In the recent hit movie The Expendables I noticed a blunder. In the suspense scene when Stallone was desperately running on the dock trying to catch the airplane (probably an old Catalina) taking off from the island, they focus a glimpse of the instruments panel where a fuel and oil pressure gauge can be seen (I believe it was the old 3 in 1 gauge, fuel & oil press. and oil temp). In this particular gauge the engine fuel pressure pointer was UP, and the engine oil pressure pointer was on ZERO – it is obvious that both pointers should have been up, indicating pressure, because the engine was running on take off. ( except if the instrument was inop.)