for the pilot training program is...
Not Doug Masters.
What did it say?
It said all that
"we regret to inform you" crap.
It said that I didn't qualify.
- You had to kind of expect it.
- Maybe I didn't.
Face it, Doug. With your average?
We're talking subterranean range.
Because of one lousy F.
I only got it because I cut class
to sneak into the simulator.
Good morning, boys and girls.
I have an announcement.
One of interest to all you
military personnel out there.
Dougie Masters has regretfully been
denied access to the Air Force Academy.
Too bad.
He would have looked so cute
in his uniform and hair cut -
- marching with the other fairies.
What's the matter, flybaby?
You're dead, Knotcher.
I'll wait here till you come out,
and then you're mine.
If we fight,
you'll have to deal with the sheriff.
If we race, you only
deal with the mountains and me.
You've got it.
Be at Mclntyre's in an hour.
Call Raymond and tell him to
gas up my plane for the "Snake".
You'll get killed!
Just like Jimmy Branson did.
Excuse me.
Excuse me!
Hand me that Phillips head.
- Why are you working on my plane?
- The Phillips head, boy.
Raymond was supposed to...
- You're flying the "Snake", right?
- How did you know?
- Why are you making my mixture so rich?
- How low will you be flying?
Fifty feet, why?
As lean as you were running,
and it went into a stall, -
- you wouldn't be able to pull it out.
- That's what happened to Jimmy.
- That's right.
He didn't know either.
You couldn't tell him
after he was peeled off that cliff.
What do I owe you?
We'll talk about that later.
If you come back.
According to the rules, Doug can take
any route through the mountains -
- if he stays under
the fifty foot height limit.
Knotcher,
you have to stick to the main road.
You'll do a loop through
Dragon Canyon and end up back here.
Who'll make sure he doesn't pull up,
if it gets too scary for him?
If he pulls up, he's disqualified.
Packer and Brillo can ride monitor
with me and Reggie.
Let's do it.
Good luck. I'm climbing.
That music is jamming!
Dance to those rocks.
How's he doing?
My stomach hurts from watching him fly.
What's with Knotcher?
He almost started a career
as a hood ornament.
Just land on him and get it over with.
- Don't you feel like flying today?
- Flying, yes. Dying, no.
- That's not the main road.
- A road's a road.
That'll take ten minutes off his time.
He's taking the fire road.
You can't beat him now.
It's not over yet.
You're coming up on Devil's Face.
That's where Branson bought it.
You did it, Buddy!
Come on, Reggie!
Pull up!
You're toying with death, you know that?
Keep jamming to the tunes,
you're zooming.
Smoke's pouring out of your manifold!
- I'm losing oil pressure.
- Set her down!
Wonder what a crashed Cessna
looks like?
- What did you do to his engine?
- Knotcher made me do it.
- He made me adjust his oil cap.
- They've loosened your pressure cap!
- Land the plane.
- Stop acting crazy!
Easy.
I'm coming up on Knotcher.
- I can beat him.
- Don't be a fool!
Land the plane, man.
Don't stall on me now.
You've got him now!
Shit!
Rough landing, flybaby?
- It was just a joke.
- It's pretty funny.
- You could've killed me.
- What?
I said, you could have killed me.
Couldn't hear you.
Can you hear me now?
Doug, you have to come with me.
It's your dad.
You have to get back to the base.
He's been shot down.
Jesus... is he?
I don't know,
they just found out about it.
I'll get Matt, just go.
- When will they release him?
- They don't know.
Didn't they tell you why they
were flying so near the coast line?
The general said,
they couldn't go into it with me.
I'll be back in a minute.
Is Colonel Blackburn in there?
You can't go in there!
You can't go through here!
Who the hell do you think you are?
I want to talk to Colonel Blackburn.
It's okay.
- I suppose you want some answers.
- Nobody tells us what's going on.