No Highway in the Sky (1951)

David Hutcheson: Penworthy - Test Pilot

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• Penworthy, Test Pilot : Scotty, meet Rosie, she's a spy. Wait till you see her bedroom, it's absolutely papered in blueprints.

• Penworthy, Test Pilot : Listen Scotty, pilots and desks, dogs and cats, natural enemies. We've got a theme song, you can laugh, pilot's error. Whenever anything goes wrong with their calculations and there's a smash up, pilot's error. Rosie. You remember Harry Ward?

  Dennis Scott : Yes I do.

  Penworthy, Test Pilot : Well look at what they did to him. He was piloting that Reindeer when it flew into the hill at Labrador a couple of months ago. All in little pieces, nothing to go on. Pilot dead, so pilot's error.

  Dennis Scott : You don't think it was pilot's error.

  Penworthy, Test Pilot : With Harry Ward, Scott? You can't be serious. They said he was dropping off altitude in an overcast. He wouldn't do a crazy thing like that, he'd be tried. Rosie, if you can tear yourself away from the salt mines for a couple of minutes, we would like a couple of wodkas.

• Penworthy, Test Pilot : What is your job, Scotty?

  Dennis Scott : Head of Metallurgy.

  Penworthy, Test Pilot : Don't tell me you're polishing your pants. Don't tell me you're one of those crawling little desk blokes.