wallpaper and such.
He's queer as a bedbug.
But I just hate this room.
Gives me the willies.
Like I'm about to be swallowed up
by the latest issue of Town & Country.
What room do you like?
My study.
Take me there.
You are the tallest woman I know.
And all sharp elbows and knees.
Beware.
Will you fly me to work tomorrow?
It is tomorrow.
Keep your eye on the fuel. She's got
a minimum to keep her weight down.
Two runs. That's it.
After that, you're flying on vapors.
And then you crash and you die.
Give her easy flying.
Don't worry about speed
and don't think about the record today.
I wish you'd let someone else take her.
You've got 20 test pilots.
Hell, why should I let someone else
have all the fun? See you in a bit.
Contact!
339.
Goddamn!
347.
Son of a bitch!
- 352.
- 352!
Good girl.
Damn it!
Goddamn it!
- Oh, God!
- There goes our meal ticket.
Come on!
Howard!
- Howard!
- How did we do?
352 on the last run.
She'll go faster.
Country mouse!
- Kate! Katie!
- Upstairs, city mouse.
Hello.
Good Lord, what happened to you?
Oh, nothing. A hard landing.
I cut my foot.
Sit down. I'll take care of it.
You tell me everything.
You cannot imagine what it was like, Katie.
You cannot imagine the speed.
- She was like a winged bullet up there.
- What did she make?
Oh, around 352.
You did it!
Fastest man on the planet.
Hot dog! I'm so proud of you.
- She did it, baby.
- You knew she would.
Oh, she was fine. She was just fine.
Now let me see your foot.
Yeah.
- Good God! You're covered in blood.
- Oh, no. That's just beet juice.
- I crashed into a beet field.
- What?
Yeah, I crashed in a beet field.
Let me get you cleaned up.
- Heavens, what is this? Electrical tape?
- Yeah. Odie just sort of slammed it on there.
But all I could think about
was getting home to see you.
I am so proud of you.
Now, this is gonna sting a little bit.
Oh, this is useless.
Come to the bathroom.
- Don't get beet juice on the carpet.
- I won't, I won't.
- Too hot!
- Don't be a baby.
Was the press there?
Some.
But they're calling everyone.
Should be on the wires by now.
What is it?
Kate?
I've been famous,
for better or worse...
...for a long time now...
...and I wonder if you know what it...
...really means.
Yeah. I had my fair share
of press on Hell's Angels.
I'm used to it.
Are you?
Howard, we're...
We're not like everyone else.
Too many acute angles.
Too many eccentricities.
We have to be very careful not to...
...let people in,
or they'll make us into freaks.
Kate, they can't get in here.
We're safe.
They can always get in.
When my brother killed himself...
...there were photographers
at the funeral.
There's no decency to it.
You know, sometimes I...
I get these feelings, Katie.
I get these ideas, these...
...crazy ideas about...
...things that may not...
Things that may not really be there.
Yeah.
Sometimes I truly fear that I'm...
...Iosing my mind.
And if I did, it would...
It'd be like flying blind.
You understand?
You taught me to fly, Howard.
I'll take the wheel.
Smashing all records. Howard Hughes
outdoes Jules Verne's wildest dreams.
Around the world from New York
to New York in four days.
Even beating Wiley Post's mark
by over three days.
New aviation history is written
when his Lockheed monoplane...
...returns swiftly and safely.
A daring aviator.
A true pioneer of the world's airways.
From New York to Paris. He cuts Lindbergh's
time in half. Then on to Moscow.
Thirty-five hours out of New York.
He roars across Siberia's trackless wastes.
Sixty hours out of New York. He heads
for Alaska. Most hazardous hop of all.
Continuing the terrific pace.
He comes home...
...bringing new laurels
to American aviation.
Howard Hughes and his crew
may find more worlds to conquer...
You won't believe this. It just came over the