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on your wall.

Did I say something wrong?

I'll tell you. We got two categories

of pilots around here.

We got your prime pilots

that get all the hot planes.

And we got your pudknockers

who dream about getting the hot planes.

Now what are you two pudknockers

going to have?

Scotch.

You know what happened!

The machine broke.

It didn't, it's the man.

He was dead before he went up.

Don't talk about it here.

Good one. Now fire it in here.

Look at old Yeager.

On top of the pyramid

for five goddamn years.

Every time somebody goes faster,

he just goes up again.

He stays the fastest man alive.

You know...

sometimes...

all it takes is just the sound

of a truck starting.

I think:

"That's the crash truck."

Anyway...

I'm really glad we could talk.

I thought I was the only one

who had these nightmares.

Yeah. Me, too.

Nobody ever wants to talk

about anything around here.

Everybody's always trying to...

"maintain an even strain."

Well, you marry a fighter jock

and you marry the military.

I'll tell you one thing.

The military owes me for all this.

One day I expect the military

to make good.

Well, it sure ain't your average dull life.

I went East for a reunion...

and all my friends could talk about

was their husbands' work.

How dog-eat-dog and cutthroat it was

on Madison Avenue...

places like that.

Cutthroat?

I wondered how they would have felt...

if each time their husband

went in to make a deal...

there was a one in four chance

he wouldn't come out of the meeting.

I'm going home to my folks in San Diego.

What did Gordo say?

He "maintained an even strain."

Look at them.

You'd think they were talking

about sports.

Men...

Sometimes they're just such... a**holes.

Sometimes they sure are

handy a**holes, though.

Yeah, sometimes...

Sometimes.

You want a hot dog?

I'm leaving, Gordo.

Look at that!

Yeah, that's the D-558 Phase Two.

Scott Crossfield.

It sure as hell is. Jesus!

He scorched that one, didn't he?

He's pushing the outside of the envelope.

He must be going for a record.

He's shooting for Mach 2, I heard.

On the 50th anniversary

of the Wright Brothers' historic flight...

another historic flight takes place

as Scott Crossfield...

streaks across the skies

over the high desert in California.

Mach 2.

Almost 1,500 miles per hour...

and a new world record!

It's a field day for the press.

Congratulations come

from a previous record holder...

as he shakes the hand

of the fastest man alive, Scott Crossfield.

And there's a comradeship of speed.

To Scott Crossfield, the fastest man alive.

To the D-558 Phase Two.

I'll tell you a quick one.

The one about the newlyweds...

who didn't know the difference

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