- Aluminum Christmas Trees: Air America was a real airline operated by the CIA during The Vietnam War which evidently did in fact smuggle drugs on the side.
- Awesome Music: Among others, The Edgar Winter Group's "Free Ride" over the opening credits.
- Funny Moments: A few; for starters, Billy buzzing the semi-driver:...Not unlike this complete MORON here in the brown eighteen-wheeler...
- Billy's first day.
That's not a landing strip, it's a mountain! Please don't do this!
Hey, you know, that would make a great commercial! "Excuse me, is that an Uzi? Why, yes, it is..." - Harsher in Hindsight: Robert Downey Jr. in a film involving drugs. Awkward...
- In the Hmong community, the film is poorly regarded due to its unflattering depiction of Vang Pao (re-named Lu Soong), a very highly-regarded leader who helped save many of their lives while they were facing oppression by the Laotian regime.
- Yet another movie with Mel Gibson "acting" crazy.
- This may be Robert Downey Jr.'s first time buzzing somebody, but it won't be the last.
- Tear Jerker: Jack's last flight is searching for Gene and Billy after their helicopter gets shot down.
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