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- You bet.

Oh, thank you, gentlemen.

- Oh, for me.

- We thought it would look nice on you.

Oh, thank you.

- This makes me feel very grand.

- Freddie's right.

There is nothing like an orchid

to make a woman feel good.

Psychiatrist from Jacksonville?

Oh, no, he's a barman on the club car.

Oh, you gentlemen certainly get around.

For two.

I'm sorry, we only have a single now.

Well, give him a tip.

Haven't you ever been around?

Here you are. Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Oh, excuse me. I see some friends.

Oh, I'm simply starved.

Trains always make me so hungry.

I get an appetite

from the darnedest things. Hello, dear.

Hello.

I don't think I've met your friends.

Oh, I'm sorry. Captain Rusty...?

- Thomas.

- I'm sure.

- And Lieutenant Dink...?

- Watson.

- Miss...?

- Oh, Consuela Callahan.

I come from a very old Spanish family.

I see you took my advice.

My orchid's on ice.

So is your friend, the admiral.

Oh, what are you drinking?

Wine.

Wine.

I haven't seen you all afternoon.

Do you have a compartment?

No, I'm in the coach.

Oh, that's tough.

I'm right next to your officer friends.

They're 5 and I'm 7.

Lucky 7, huh?

You're 7?

But we're still 5.

Oh, well, you're too young for me.

- I have a two now.

- Oh, fine. Fine.

They asked me to stay,

but I told them I was with you.

Oh, that's nice.

It never fails to surprise me there are

still vast lands in the United States...

...literally uncultivated.

Well, it won't be this way long.

Come the private airplane,

people will start spreading around.

Wouldn't it be wonderful

to be part of a new world?

Well, I don't think it will change

as much as some people think.

- Oh, but it must.

- Why?

For too long we've had that laissez-faire

attitude toward executive operation.

We must educate ourselves

to share the responsibilities...

...as well as the advantages

of citizenship.

Oh, I read that book too.

It certainly made an impression on you

what that writer had to say.

But it's a lot of hooey.

Fixing everybody up

when they let out their first squawk.

Giving them pointers on good

government between bottle feedings.

Teaching them

to be good ladies and gentlemen...

...and not smack each other.

Oh, it's very easy to make fun

of everything.

Listen, Ms. Klotch.

Have you ever heard of the fellows

who first came over to this country?

You know what they found?

They found a howling wilderness.

Where summer's too hot

and winter's freezing.

And they also found some unpleasant

little characters who painted their faces.

Do you think these pioneers,

filled out form number X6277?

And sent in a report saying the Indians

were a little unreasonable?

Did they have insurance

for their old age?

For their crops, for their homes?

They did not.

They looked at the land and the forest

and the rivers.

They looked at their wives, their kids

and their houses.

And then they looked up the sky

and they said:

"Thanks, God. We'll take it from here. "

They were rugged fellows.

They were men.

You and I are talking

about two entirely different things.

- Dink, you know what?

- What?

This girl is stubborn.

- Oh, it's lovely.

- What's lovely?

The "Blue Danube. "

I love Strauss waltzes.

How can you think of a waltz when

they're playing the "Cow Cow Boogie"?

It sounds to me like a waltz.

Well, if she says it's a waltz,

it's a waltz.

Take it easy, Ms. Klotch.

I love Strauss waltzes.

There she is. And that's my orchid.

Oh, no, no, it isn't. This is mine.

I would be little more careful

if I were you.

You know, you can get into all sorts

of trouble accusing innocent people.

Where did you get that orchid?

My friends gave it to me.

Who? Who, us?

We didn't give anybody any orchid.

She got that from the president.

For heroic conduct.

Yeah. That's right. That's not

really an orchid. It's a medal.

It's called a Distinguished Flying orchid.

You can't take that away from her.

Aren't you gonna do

anything about it?

I can't do anything about it.

She got it from the president.

Are you sure

I got this from the president?

Not exactly. But we couldn't let

Freddie take the rap...

...after he was nice enough

to give it to us.

Even though we did have to give him

those Jap medals for it.

That's lovely.

Say, this girl's saying

some pretty silly things.

Looks to me

like she's in some kind of a tail spin.

No, it's not a tail spin.

I know.

What do you know?

I know about tail spins.

I had four and a half hours

once in a cub plane.

And if you can fly a cub plane,

you can fly practically anything.

My instructor told me.

Oh, you should have told us.

You didn't ask me.

Well, I'm asking you now.

You know how to make

a three-point-landing?

Oh, sure.

This girl doesn't want to fly.

You've got other things on your mind.

Yes, I do.

What do you wanna do?

Fly.

All right, Dink, let's let her fly.

We'll give her a C-47.

- Isn't that a little too big for this car?

- That's part of the problem.

- I'll have another drink first.

- Not while you're on the job.

- Okay, where's my plane?

- That's easy. Come on, Dink.

- Pardon me, will you hold this?

- Certainly.

Grab a table. Get it?

- Got it.

- What are you doing?

We're getting a plane out of the hangar.

- What?

- Come in over here.

Come on.

Oh, it's kind of high up there.

- Sure it's flying. You're in a C-47.

- Gentlemen. Gentlemen. Gentlemen.

Gentlemen. Gentlemen.

Gentlemen. Gentlemen.

- Be careful. You might get in trouble.

- Government business.

Oh, it's awful high up here.

What's that?

Compass, gyro,

air speed indicator, altimeter.

- She should be in a Hellcat?

- Why should she be?

I just got to thinking she should be.

Why are you so one way?

The girl's ready to take off.

- She's in a C-47. Where's the copilot?

- He's buckling his belt.

- But why does he do that?

- So he won't fall out.

- You want him to fall out?

- Well, it depends. Is he interesting?

The man has 1400 hours flying time,

she wants to know if he's interesting.

You're horsing around

and you haven't left.

- All right.

- Very well.

Our objective is 500 miles to the south.

Oh, I can see it from here.

You'd better take this plane back

to its hangar.

You're cluttering up the aisle.

- Take your complaints to administration.

- But...?

- You got a pass to get on these grounds?

- Didn't you hear what he said?

- You're obstructing an important flight.

- I am?

Clear the runway. Clear the runway.

All right, you're rolling down the runway

at 60 miles an hour.

- Seventy.

- Eighty.

- Ninety.

- What am I waiting for?

- Get off the ground.

- Lift the gear.

- Get off the ground.

- The landing gear.

- At the right-hand corner. No, no, right.

- Left, left rudder. Left rudder.

- Come on, get it to work. Hang on.

- Hit it, hit it. Hit it.

- I hit it.

- You crashed.

I crashed.

- The beetle's got herself an idea.

- Let's go.

- Come on.

- What?

Here she is.

Here she is. I know she's here.

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