Aviator2004

Glenn Odekirk:
We installed the 450 radial, but the struts won't take the vibration. Minute we go contact, the struts start craking at the attach points.

Howard Hughes:
Dammit, Odie, if the 450's too big, figure something else out!

Glenn Odekirk:
We've done everything - we've rebuilt her from top to bottom. If we drain the fuel tank for a couple of runs she might make 180 mph.

Howard Hughes:
I want minimum 200.

Glenn Odekirk:
Yeah, well, I want a date with Theda Bara, but that ain't gonna happen either.

Howard Hughes:
Don't be so sure... OK, OK, OK, this is a simple engineering problem. We just gotta think it out.

Howard Hughes:
So if the struts won't sustain the engine we need - then we gotta get rid of them.

Glenn Odekirk:
Then the top wing falls off.

Howard Hughes:
Then let it.

Glenn Odekirk:
What?

Howard Hughes:
Who says we need a top wing?

Howard Hughes:
Who says we need *anything*?

Glenn Odekirk:
A monoplane...

Howard Hughes:
A cantilevered monoplane. They're doing it in France. To the hell with the top wing and the struts...

Glenn Odekirk:
550 Whitney Wasp engine...

Howard Hughes:
100 octane fuel will give us a top horsepower of - what?

Glenn Odekirk:
Seven hundred.

Howard Hughes:
Squeeze it to a thousand and we got the fastest plane ever built.

Glenn Odekirk:
You know, I just gotta say... we've already spent over $200,000 rebuilding this plane.

Howard Hughes:
To the hell with it.

Howard Hughes:
Tear it up, Odie.