down! I'm not gonna make it, buddy! Goddamn it! Is there anyone else inside? Is there anyone else?! No. I'm Howard Hughes, the aviator. - every inch of his wiring and fluid connection. He has burns to 78 percent of his body. Nine ribs are shattered, not broken, shattered... ...as are his nose, his chin, his cheek, his left knee, his left elbow. He has 60 lacerations on his face, to the bone. His chest was crushed, so his left lung collapsed... ...and his heart has shifted to the right side of his chest cavity. Jesus, God. - He's getting blood transfusions now, but... - Whose blood? - I'm sorry? - Whose blood? From our stock. - Oh, he's not going to like that. - Mr. Dietrich, I doubt he's... ...ever gonna like or dislike anything again. I'm terribly sorry. Orange juice. It's not fresh from the kitchen, so I... I have them make it here so... So I can see. Look at me. I'm a monster. Yeah. Orange juice has nutritional value. There's... There's some flies outside my window, though. So... ...little Howard likes... ...citrus. Don't he just? Tell me. An oil seal ripped off the starboard rear propeller. When the pressure dropped, the prop reversed pitch. Do you understand me? Howard, I'm sorry to have to tell you this now, but there's something else. - You following me? - Yeah. The Air Force canceled the contract on The Hercules. The war's over now, and they say they don't need it anymore. I have to know what you want me to do. Should I release the staff? How far... ...from finishing? - About six months. - No, in money. Seven million. Maybe more. Build it. Build it, Odie. Howard... ...a Constellation crashed outside Reading, Pennsylvania. The Civil Aeronautics Board has grounded the whole fleet. You know... ...Juan Trippe sent me flowers. Take a look. - What did you do with all the others? - Oh, I had them taken out. They... They attract aphids. Aphids are... They're just awful little creatures. But... But these ones... ...I wanted to see these ones every day. Can white elephants fly? That's everybody's question. The hull of the world's mightiest airplane, a flying boat built by Howard Hughes. Two hundred and twenty feet long, it towers higher than a five-story building. Power lines have to be cut as it starts the trip from Culver City... ... to the Pacific, 30 miles away. Moving the 60-ton load is quite an engineering problem. But you gotta ask, was anything this big ever supposed to fly? There goes one wing section, 160 feet long with four engine housings. Double that and you've got some idea of the wingspread. An airplane that challenges a mountain for sheer size. How long can they keep us grounded? Until they finish investigating the Reading crash. Could be months. You're running a $14 million deficit. How will you afford to keep them out of service? - We go international, we'll make it up. - Brewster's C.A.B. bill isn't going away. That bill passes, and you bought these for nothing. - We're fighting the C.A.B. bill. - Meanwhile, how do we keep TWA flying? Don't say, "Just go to Tool Co." We're pumping every cent into The Hercules... ...which the Air Force doesn't even want anymore. I'm glad Jack is feeling sunny about things, but I've seen the books. I'm telling it straight. I'm not crying wolf. We're in serious trouble. You've gotta make a choice. You wanna be bankrupted by the big plane or by the big airline? Go see Thomas Parkinson at the Equitable in New York. Get a loan against all the TWA equipment and capital. Use the planes as collateral. Hell, use the desks, use the pens, use everything we got. - Try to get me 40 million. - And if TWA defaults on the loan? Then Juan Trippe buys us cheap. Under my bed! You put a goddamn microphone under my bed! Listen ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Суинни Тодд, маньяк-парикмахер с Флит Стрит на английском - текст Код Да Винчи на английском - текст Девчата на английском - текст Военно-полевой роман на английском - текст Бумер. Фильм второй на английском |