本片为《多亏了这些飞行器里的好小伙，否则我怎么能花25小时11分从伦敦飞到巴黎呢！ Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes》的续集，叙述一场疯狂赛车就要展开，世界古怪好手纷纷聚集在一起展开航跨欧洲的生死斗，搞笑过程令人喷饭。

1972 film by Ken Annakin

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"