Useless Movie Trivia For
Flyboys
Memorable Movie Quotes
Reed Cassidy: Some day it'll just end. Everyone will go home, get on with their lives. Tall grass will cover the battlefields. And all the pilots we've lost won't mean a damn thing.
Eugene Skinner: This country has been good to me. Better than my own. I owe them something.
Trivia
The first movie to motion capture planes.
As no studios would back the film, a group of filmmakers and investors including producer Dean Devlin and (according to press-releases) "ace pilot" David Ellison, son of Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, spent more than $60 million of their own money to make and market this film.
The real Lafayette Escadrille actually had a pair of lion cubs as mascots. One was indeed named "Whiskey," as in the film. The other, appropriately enough, was named "Soda."
The personal insignia of Reed Cassidy is an eagle's head surrounded by the words "Je Vois Tout" meaning "I see all".
Goofs
Fokker DR-1 triplanes were never used in the great quantities they are seen flying in, in the various dogfights in the film (the filmmakers used them because they were easily distinctive from the allied biplanes, and didn't want to leave viewers questionable as to who was on what side during these sequences.)
Several bullet holes enter the Zeppelin, but it's not until Cassidy's plane collides with it that it burst into flame. The bullets that entered the airship should have been more than enough to ignite it - not only were these airships filled with hydrogen gas which could have easily been ignited by standard bullet puncture, many of the airships of the era also featured gas cells that could create static electricity that would also easily ignite the gases within.
The German column marching through the fields near Lucienne's farm includes several tanks. The German Army built only a handful of tanks during the course of the war, the first time they were used in action was on the 21st March 1918. The majority of tanks used by the Germans during World War One were captured French and British ones.
The Black Falcon and the Gotha bomber bear the straight-edged Balkan Cross of 1918 instead of the Maltese Cross of 1914-17.
No zeppelins mounted anti aircraft machine guns on top of the superstructure.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget: 60,000
Opening Weekend $6,004,219
Gross $13,082,288
Filming Locations
RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Somerset House, Strand, London, England, UK