Did You Know?

The window behind the "Transcendental Air" desk shows the cityscape from Logan's Run.

The truck that Ted leaps out of to get into the skyport is named "Ken's Trucking" and has a Canadian maple leaf on it. This is an inside joke since "Ken" is Writer-Director Ken Finkleman who is from Canada, hence the Maple Leaf.

The hanging lady in the first airplane movie reprises her role as the first victim of Striker's anecdotes as the vomiting lady.

The music played during the shuttle launch is from the 'Nova of Madagon' sequence in Battlestar Galactica. The navigator is played by 'Kent McCord' who played Captain Troy on Galactica 1980.

At one point Stryker, speaking to William Shatner's character Buck Murdoch, says "Roger, Murdoch..." Roger Murdoch was the co-pilot in the first film played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

The car they used to jump-start the Space Shuttle prior to launch is a 1958 Ford Edsel, noteworthy as one of the biggest marketing flops in automotive history.

The "navigation chart" Simon is reviewing in preparation for takeoff is the Thomas Bros. Map Guide for Los Angeles County.

Sonny Bono's briefcase is covered with stickers from his previous destinations, which are all cities destroyed by bombs: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Pearl Harbor, and Dresden.

The machine whose purpose William Shatner's staff cannot fathom is a prop from the Regula 1 Space Station set of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Following the air traffic controller asking to get Steve McCroskey (Lloyd Bridges), there is a scene that was cut from the theatrical version which shows McCroskey in a mental institution. It opens a nurse getting a phone call from the space center asking for McCroskey. Another nurse worries that the call might disturb him, to which the first nurse replies "It's okay. He just thinks he's Lloyd Bridges." As she walks up to his bed, McCroskey is under the sheets with a snorkel poking out (A reference to Bridges's popular series "Sea Hunt"). After she gives him the phone, McCroskey takes the call and then gets out of bed saying "Looks like I picked the wrong week to go senile!" (A reference to his repeated lines from the first film: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking/drinking/sniffing glue...") Though cut from the theatrical version, the scene is often inserted in TV viewings to fill time.

The sound effects used when customers walk through the metal detector are the "strike" and "buzz-in" noises from the game show Family Feud.

Art Fleming:  The first host of the game show Jeopardy!, cameos as himself in a special "lunar shuttle version" of the show, although he is only credited as the "Jeopardy! host."