We installed the 450 radial, but the struts won't take the vibration. Minute we go...
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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.
[pause]
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?
[pauses]
Howard Hughes:
Who says we need *anything*?
[Glenn is warming up to Hughes' idea]
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.
[smiles]
Howard Hughes:
Tear it up, Odie.
[Glenn takes a sledgehammer and annihilates the struts on the top wing; the top wing falls off]
Transcript
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We installed the 450 radial but the struts won't take the vibration
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Minute we fire her up the struts start cracking at the attach points
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Well what's the good news There isn't any
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Goddamn it Odie if the 450's too big we just got to figure something else out
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We've done everything We've rebuilt her from top to toe
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Now if we drain the fuel tank for a couple of runs she might make 180mph
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I want minimum 200 all right
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I want a date with Theda Bara but that ain't gonna happen either
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Don't be so sure
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So if the struts won't sustain the engine we need we got to get rid of the struts
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No then the top wing falls off
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Then let it
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What
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Who says we need a top wing I mean who says we need anything
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A monoplane A cantilevered monoplane right
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I mean they're doing it in France To hell with the top wing and the struts
Clip duration: 63 seconds
Views: 270
Timestamp in movie: 00h 11m 40s
Uploaded: 29 November, 2022
Genres: drama
Summary: A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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