# How things have changed

**URL:** <https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/how-things-have-changed/3462>\
**Category:** Airlines\
**Created:** [June 8, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/how-things-have-changed/3462 "2007-06-08T18:23:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![liembo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ec9cab/32.png) [@liembo](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/liembo)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/how-things-have-changed/3462/1 "2007-06-08T18:23:32Z")

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I was watching “Commando” the other day on TV and there’s a sequence where Arnie is put aboard an airplane which he escapes from via the front landing gear.

Well, this movie was released in 1985 and as I watched the background of this particular sequence, I was looking at the aircraft in the background.

Of all the airlines they showed on film, every single one no longer exists, and a majority of the aircraft shown are no longer in use by major carriers in the US:

TWA (L-1011) (background)  
Arnie boarded a Western Airlines DC-10 which he escapes from  
Also shown in the background:  
Eastern Airlines L-1011

IMDB says the airports were LAX and Long Beach.

Weird how things change in 20 years, eh?

(Oh, and Arnold Schwarzeneggar is now the re-elected leader of California, which if it were a country, would be the 7th largest by GDP in the world.)

- liem

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**Author:** ![wazzu90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bc79bd/32.png) [@wazzu90](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/wazzu90)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/how-things-have-changed/3462/2 "2007-06-08T18:54:58Z")

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😆 Somebody beat you to it…

Benjamin Disraeli  
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom  
In office  
February 20, 1874 April 21, 1880

> Change is inevitable. Change is constant

😆