MaximRecoil said:

That's awesome that they are building real props to represent ships. I've seen a lot of CGI airplanes and helicopters in Hollywood movies lately, and they are just ordinary, real world aircraft that they wouldn't have even had to build in order to film them for real.

It is the height of laziness when you have a big Hollywood budget and you CGI something (or more likely, just grab a pre-existing CGI model from a hard drive) that exists in the real world.

On relatively low budget TV shows from the '80s they filmed real aircraft (e.g., Airwolf, Magnum, P.I., and many others), yet certain big Hollywood productions today can't be bothered to rent or otherwise acquire an airplane or helicopter and point a camera at it?

Miniature remote controlled aircraft figured into many of those productions.

And Airwolf was hardly a low budget show, at least not until it's awful last season shot on the cheap in Canada. That copter was expensive to fly, and stock footage was run into the ground towards the end, along with some of the worst model shots outside an Ed Wood film.