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7	''[[WalkieTalkieStatic Chhhk]]''
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9	''[[DangerDeadpan Tropers and tropesses, this is your captain speaking]]. We are currently cruising at an [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale immeasurable altitude]], and will be [[ComingInHot unexpectedly forced to make an emergency crash landing]] in approximately [[ExactTimeToFailure three and a half hours]]. The fasten seatbelts light has been switched off, so you may feel free to [[DeathInTheClouds murder your fellow passengers under mysterious circumstances]], but please be aware that [[RuleOfDrama drama dictates]] there be a GreatDetective on board at all times. Our [[SexyStewardess impossibly glamorous cabin crew]] will soon be along to provide you with FanserviceWithASmile, who may also provide you a free entry ticket to the MileHighClub, and in the meantime, please enjoy our fine selection of tropes related to aircraft and air travel.''
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12	!!Tropes:
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14	[[index]]
15	[floatboxright:
16	Sub-categories:
17	+ SkydivingTropes
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20	* AcePilot: A top-class, badass pilot who can get several kills (if military) or overcome aircraft failures and save lives while piloting (if civilian).
21	* AirborneAircraftCarrier: A mobile floating airport and oftentimes fortress.
22	* AirplaneOfLove: An airplane (or bird) flying over someone's head to symbolize unrequited love.
23	* UsefulNotes/{{Airships}}: A UsefulNotes page on airships, how they work, their history, and their applications.
24	* AirstrikeImpossible: A pilot demonstrates their ImprobablePilotingSkills by flying through extremely tight or otherwise less-than-optimal flying spaces.
25	* AirVoyance: Characters standing outside an airport always know exactly which plane has their loved one on it.
26	* AlwaysKnowAPilot: A pilot's skills are useful or necessary in the story.
27	* BellyScrapingFlight: An aircraft (or flying creature) brushes the ground or a terrestrial obstacle in a close call.
28	* BlackHelicopter: The go-to aircraft for government agencies.
29	* BuzzingTheDeck: A pilot (or someone who can fly somehow) makes a fast pass very low to the ground or close to a target, usually with the intent to startle or frighten.
30	* ChopperOnStandby: There's a helicopter ready when a character needs need one.
31	* ClipItsWings: A flying target's wings are its most vulnerable spot, so attacking or damaging those wings can cause the target to no longer be capable of flight; applies to both planes and winged people/animals.
32	* ComingInHot: A barely controllable, if even that, aircraft comes in for what ground and air crews are convinced is an inevitable crash landing.
33	* CoolAirship: An exceptionally cool and often luxurious airship which is owned by a major character, or otherwise play a prominent role in the story.
34	* CoolPlane: An exceptionally cool plane, helicopter, or glider plane which is typically either luxurious or highly technologically advanced.
35	* CrashCourseLanding: The pilot of a plane is somehow incapacitated, and a civilian with no (or outdated) pilot training must land it safely.
36	* DangerDeadpan: A pilot who always keeps their cool; may also apply to non-pilots.
37	* DeathInTheClouds: A stock murder mystery plot which takes place on an airplane.
38	* DisposablePilot: The driver of a vehicle, in this case the pilot of the plane, has been incapacitated and cannot drive, spelling chaos for the passengers.
39	* EjectionSeat: A character's plane has an ejection seat, which they use to get rid of an undesirable, or to facilitate escape.
40	* EpisodeOnAPlane: An episode that takes place on an airplane.
41	* EveryHelicopterIsAHuey: Helicopters from the Bell Huey family showing up as a generic helicopter, often in place of other more logical choices.
42	* FighterLaunchingSequence: RuleOfCool insists that when a bunch of fighters (planes, spaceships, etc.) go into battle, you always have to see them taking off first.
43	* FutureCopter: Impossibly cool, futuristic, tiltrotor aircraft.
44	* GiantFlyer: Large flying creatures in fantasy works.
45	* GunshipRescue: The heroes are saved from a BolivianArmyEnding by the arrival of one or several combat vehicles, or combat aircraft in this case.
46	* HammerspaceParachute: A character pulls out a parachute from {{Hammerspace}}.
47	* HelicopterBlender: Using a helicopter's rotor blades as a weapon.
48	* HelicopterFlyswatter: A monster or character so big they can swat low-flying aircraft, oftentimes helicopters, with ease.
49	* HellishCopter: Helicopters disproportionately crash in media, even when it's not necessarily expected.
50	* ImprobablePilotingSkills: Good piloting lets vehicles outperform others of the same model, or even break the laws of physics.
51	* JustForTheHeliOfIt: When someone uses or suggests to use a helicopter to get somewhere, another character criticizes or ridicules this use.
52	* JustPlaneWrong: ArtisticLicense -- Aviation.
53	* LandingGearShot: A quick shot of a plane landing on a runway as shorthand for a change in geographical location to the other side of the country or the globe.
54	* LookMaNoPlane: A character who can fly without a plane can will fly very close to an aircraft, then either annoy or scare the living daylights out of the passengers.
55	* MidairCollision: One aircraft is damaged enough to cause it to veer off course and crash into another aircraft.
56	* MidairRepair: Repairing the aircraft (or spacecraft) in the middle of the flight.
57	* MileHighClub: Two or more characters have sex on a plane, usually in the bathroom.
58	* MissingManFormation: A ceremonial incomplete fighter jet formation to honor a fallen teammate.
59	* OceanicAirlines: If there's a fictional aircraft disaster, chances are, the airline involved is called this.
60	* OffscreenAirplanePullup: An aircraft pulls up out of a fall at the last second and out of view.
61	* OldSchoolDogfight: Aircraft (and spacecraft) behaving like pre-Cold War planes in situations where they shouldn't.
62	* OverlyLongAirplaneBannerGag: A really long banner is attached to an airplane.
63	* ParachuteInATree: Someone with a parachute snags onto something just before hitting the ground, leaving the owner dangling in the air.
64	* PardoPush: A pilot uses their aircraft to push a damaged aircraft so they can land safely.
65	* PlaneAwfulFlight: Plane flights are uncomfortable or even downright miserable to sit through.
66	* UsefulNotes/PlaneSpotting: A UsefulNotes page on tracking the movement of aircraft as a hobby.
67	* PlanesTrainsAndImbeciles: Airport workers being painfully unhelpful, if not outright abusive.
68	* ScreamingPlaneBaby: If a character is riding a plane (or public transportation), a baby will inevitably start crying.
69	* SexyStewardess: Female flight attendants are portrayed as MsFanservice.
70	* ShortLivedAerialEscape: A group, usually the bad guys, try to escape the scene on an aircraft, only for the enemy to take it down before it gets far.
71	* SkyConsumingDogfight: A large-scale battle sequence where many aircraft shoot at each other in close proximity.
72	* SkyHeist: Using an aircraft to steal something, then flying away with the object dangling from the aircraft.
73	* SpacePlane: A spaceship that looks and works like an airplane.
74	* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: Attacking from the air with a heaping dose of RuleOfCool and RuleOfDrama.
75	* StukaScream: When something falls at high speed, it somehow always plays the Ju-87 "Stuka" siren, i.e. it sounds like a World War II German dive bomber.
76	* UsefulNotes/SuperiorFirepowerBombers: A UsefulNotes page on bomber planes.
77	* ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: Flying machines in fiction are weird and have a {{steampunk}} aesthetic.
78	* TurbineBlender: When a living entity flies into a jet engine, [[LudicrousGibs things get messy]].
79	* {{Wingman}}: The guy flying the other warplane beside the hero.
80	* WrongParachuteGag: A character grabs a bag and jumps from a great height, mistaking it for a parachute, when it actually contains something else.
81	* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: The prominence of Zeppelin airships are the first sign that you are in a parallel universe.
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84	''[[Film/SnakesOnAPlane That's it! I've had it with these time-consuming tropes on this time-consuming plane!]] Strap yourselves in, I'm gonna open some webpages!''

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