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For anyone who pays attention to such things, I edited the Flight of the Phoenix page to incorporate earlier corrections and make the whole thing a bit more readable.

"You are behaving as if stupidity were a virtue, Ted."

Heinrich Dorfmann:

Yes. We've everything we need here to build a new one and fly it out. Now, if you'd like to have a look at my calculations, I don't know whether you can read my handwriting.

Frank Towns:

Your theory's fine, but you get this mister... that engine's rated at two thousand horsepower and if I was ever fool enough to let it get started up it'd shake your patched-up pile of junk into a thousand pieces, and cut us up into mincemeat with the propeller.

Heinrich Dorfmann:

I told you there would be no difficulty in building this aeroplane. I also told you it would require an outstanding pilot to fly it. The only thing outstanding about you, Mr. Towns, is your stupidity.