Trivia

The explosion in the Alaska airfield sequence used 500 gallons of gasoline. It was so big NASA had to be notified in advance.

The film made $76.9 million, against a budget of $135 million.The $58.1 million loss made it one of the biggest box office bombs of all time.

Jessica Biel was the only actor to not get motion sickness from the gimballed cockpit.

The design of the Talon jets is based on the Northrop Grumman Switchblade, a forward-swept swing wing fighter-bomber intended to replace the F-111.

A photo of one of the F/A-37 Talon mock-ups, snapped on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln during filming was published in an Australian aviation magazine, claiming that the Talon was an actual prototype aircraft being tested by the US Navy.