The US Government supplied 3 Marine Harriers and their pilots for a fee of $100,736 ($2,410 per hour).
* When Arnold Schwarzenegger rescues wife Jamie Lee Curtis from an airborne chopper, he grasps her by her arm just as the chopper heads out over the water. The woman you see dangling below the chopper skid is no body double, but Curtis doing her very own stunt work. At her insistence, director James Cameron agreed to let her perform this scary spectacle.
* Directors Trademark (James Cameron): [nuke]
* Jamie Lee Curtis did the helicopter stunt on her birthday.
