- Movie Goof (factual errors): In the opening scene, raw recruits at Cranwell carry out a short but very complicated drill maneuver in civilian dress. In reality they would have known nothing on that first day.
- Douglas Bader received a CBE from the Queen (Commander of the British Empire) for services to the disabled the same year that the film was released.
- Movie Goof (anachronisms): The scenes set in the days leading up to the onset of the Second World War feature late model Mark XVI Spitfires with 'teardrop' canopies, four-bladed propellers and cannon in the wings. In addition, the serial number on one aircraft (VT151) was an unused number from a block allocated to Gloster for a batch of Meteor F Mk 4's. (The serial can't be V7151 either, as this was an unused number from a block allocated to Gloster for a batch of Hawker Hurricanes - Gloster being part of the Hawker group).
- Originally scripted with Richard Burton in mind for the lead role. The book The Golden Gong - Fifty years of the Rank Organisation, its films and its stars by Quentin Falk states that Kenneth More " . . . was second choice, after Richard Burton, to play the Second World War fighter pilot Douglas Bader."
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