Trovão Azul

One reason Roy Scheider made this film was so that he would be unavailable to get cast as Chief Brody in Tubarão 3 (1983), though he also admitted in an interview that the "Jaws" producers knew better than to ask him to play Brody again.

Cochrane sabotages Murphy's Bell jet ranger by removing the cotter pin and loosening the nut on the throttle-control linkage bolt so it can slip out. Aviation bolts are always installed head-end up as a safety precaution to keep the bolt in place should the nut come off.

There are no opening credits after the title is shown.

When "Blue Thunder" was first released on video in Sweden, the scene where Kate drives to the the TV station with the videotape, involved a crazy stunt when she drives into a narrow alley and meets a police car that comes the other way. To avoid a disaster, Kate flips her car on its side, hits its roof on a wall and flips back again. In later video versions, the stunt is gone. We only see the car when it enters the alley and then we see her driving on the freeway with a strange damage on the roof.

Featured in At the Movies: Blue Thunder/Return of the Jedi/Breathless/La Traviata (1983)