Updated "Flight of the Phoenix" material
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Updated "Flight of the Phoenix" material
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.
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Re: Updated "Flight of the Phoenix" material
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Re: Updated "Flight of the Phoenix" material
"You are behaving as if stupidity were a virtue, Ted."
Re: Updated "Flight of the Phoenix" material
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.
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.