Pushing Tin Page #3

find New York by the smell?

Sparta 753, turn left heading 070.

Maintain 2000 till localizer.

- Cleared ILS runway four.

- ILS runway four.

Let's get dinner. I wanna see

if you're as ugly as you sound.

I'll find a place

where we don't need shoes.

Is your pig there

or are you sleeping alone?

Can I have your attention?

Turn off your scopes.

This is the new man.

This is Russell Bell.

Russell's worked Albuquerque,

Denver, Phoenix.

He's wanted in three states.

This motley group does the impossible:

Make me look good.

Setting up a tailgate for the Giants game.

Meadowlands. Who's in?

Who's up for it, huh? It's...

You're all business.

Okay, let's get

Russell checked out ASAP.

Welcome aboard, Bell.

Get you started on your paperwork.

- What's that?

- Who cares, if he makes the cut.

That is one man closer to my getting

a quiet job upstate...

...seeing a shrink with big tits.

At least we know when he's here,

he won't be robbing our homes.

I don't know.

I think he looks kind of interesting.

You'd like to bring him down

your main runway?

Go die.

Like a wholegrain muffin?

- That kind of interesting?

- Hanging left today?

Jetlink 2946, your company traffic's

at 3:
00. Slow down to 180.

I am at 180.

Correction, 160.

I heard of this guy.

I got a buddy in Denver...

...who mentioned a weird guy

who was the best controller.

In the sticks.

Till you hit five, living is easy.

If it's him, I also heard he's crazy.

He stood on a runway

and let a 747 fly over his head.

What for?

To understand what

wake turbulence felt like.

- That's bullshit.

- That's bogus.

We allow five miles between planes

for wake turbulence.

That's what I heard.

- It would've killed him.

- You've seen him. Sure it didn't?

Hey, Russell.

You've met Ron Hewitt,

our very own Emily Post.

Let's go, smiley.

Nick Falzone. I'm called "The Zone."

Shake it like you mean it.

So we're going out

after work for a few drinks...

...a few laughs. You wanna join us?

You don't say much.

- Trudy, hit us up.

- Bring us seven shots, will you?

Russell, word is you're a good controller.

What's the most planes

you had to handle?

- I didn't have time to count. Why?

- Our washout rate's a mere 50% .

We wonder if the new guy

will go wacko when cornered.

And you will get cornered here.

Don't unpack.

I just move them around

so they don't collide.

I felt that way, but they're human beings.

- Kind of dampens it.

- Nobody told me that.

One more round, then I'm cutting you off.

They test you,

you're blowing it without my help.

We heard you stood on a runway

in New Mexico...

...and let a 747 part your hair

with wake turbulence.

- That happen?

- No.

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