- Movie Goof (factual errors): The model of the RF-8 Crusader that is piloted by Commander Ecker contains an infrared search & track "blister" (in the film seen as a bump protruding from the top of the aircraft's nose). This is incorrect. Only model fighter variants of the F-8 Crusader had a "blister" that protruded from the top of the nose cone. It was a device used to track and lock onto enemy aircraft during aerial-combat. No reconnaissance versions of the Crusader (known as the RF-8) ever had a infra-red search and track blister. The job of the RF-8 was to strictly take aerial photographs, and never to engage in aerial dog fighting.
- Movie Goof (factual errors): In the movie, Kruschev's acceptance of peace contains the line "you and I should not now pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the harder you and I pull, the tighter the knot will become..." The quote goes on at some length and can be seen in the message coming in over the teletype. The trouble with this is that the quote appeared in Kruschev's first letter, dated October 26, 1962, in which he proposed the terms of peace. It did not appear in his October 27, 1962 acceptance of the American conciliation terms.
- Movie Goof (continuity error): The trees surrounding the White House change from being fully green, to autumn colors then back to fully green.
- The 1960s' vintage F-8s shown in the film are all real aircraft that were used by the Philippine Air Force.
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