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-Environmentalists who opposed this film being shot in the Blue Mountains Wilderness Area took the film producers to court, along with the government department which issued the filming permit. The court found that the filming permit had been issued illegally and ordered the producers to stop shooting the film in the wilderness area immediately. An alternative location had to be found.
-500 gallons of gasoline were used for the explosion in the Alaska airfield sequence. NASA had to be notified of it in advance because it was so big.
-This was one of the biggest box office bombs of all time, losing a total box office revenue of 58.1 million US dollars (135 million was the original budget for the film).
-Jessica Biel was the only one to not get motion sickness from the gimballed cockpit.
-Originally written and conceived as a live action Star Fox (1993) film.
-This picture was made with the support of the U.S. Navy and was the first picture to film a completely fictional military aircraft on an actual carrier.
-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.
-When we see Capt. Marshfield and Capt. Cummings walk the flight deck of USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) the patch on the front of Capt. Marshfield's jacket says USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) - this was one of the aircraft carriers used during filming.
-The submachine gun Lt. Wade uses after landing in North Korea is a Heckler & Koch MP7.
-For most of the flight scenes, the artists at Digital Domain used "EnGen" (Environment Generator) to create the virtual landscapes, also used on La machine à explorer le temps (2002) & Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). An earlier version of the program, called "Terragen", is on-line available for free.
-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.
-Rock band Incubus have been commissioned to write songs for this film.
-In all American advertising for the film, Jamie Foxx got top billing, but in all Japanese advertising, Josh Lucas got top billing.
-The camera in the waterfall scene is a Leica M6 with 90mm f/2.0 APO Summicron M Aspherical lens.
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-Early in the movie, the crew looks for debris on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. This is known as the FOD (Foreign Object Debris) walk, and it is an essential flight safety procedure on all aircraft carriers. Ingesting even a small piece of debris can cause jet engine failure, endangering the plane and its crew.
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-Conventional aircraft seen on the USS Vinson include various models of the F/A-18 Hornet, E-2 Hawkeye, and EA-6 Prowler. An SH-60 Seahawk helicopter makes a brief appearance as well.
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-When Keith Orbit is looking at the code for the AI, we can see that the code is written in LaTeX, which is a language for typesetting mathematics much as HTML is used on the Internet for typesetting web pages.
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-In the theatrical trailer, Randy Edelman is credited as co-composer.
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-The aircraft carriers used in the film are the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Abraham Lincoln
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-Capt. Cummings mentions that the UCAV has a pulse detonation engine and hybrid scramjet engines. Pulse detonation engines and scramjet engines have been successfully tested, but as of 2012 neither of these technologies has been deployed in any known production aircraft.
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-The North Korean helicopter pursuing the heroes at the end of the movie is a Soviet-designed gunship variant of the Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name: "Hip").
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-Fourteen cameras were used to film the hangar explosion.
