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- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: I've given the Frenchman the address of a very lovely young lady.
- Courtney: Oh, ho, ho - I'll bet she's a bit of all right, guv'nor.
- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: You should know - she's your daughter.
- Courtney: But guv'nor - she's an innocent young girl!
- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: Not *is*, Courtney - *was*!
- Captain Rumpelstoss: But... how will I learn to fly?
- Count Manfred Von Holstein: Same way as we learn everything else in the German army: From the book of instructions!
- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: I've given the Frenchman the address of a very lovely young lady.
- Courtney: Oh, ho, ho - I'll bet she's a bit of all right, guv'nor.
- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: You should know - she's your daughter.
- Courtney: But guv'nor - she's an innocent young girl!
- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: Not *is*, Courtney - *was*!
- Count Emilio Ponticelli: It is a pity that the race will now be won by a Protestant.
- Mother Superior: Protestant?... Sisters, don't stand around gaping - this good Catholic needs our help!
- [first lines]
- The Neanderthal Man: [watches a gull flying over a beach]
- Narrator: Ever since man started to think, he's wanted to fly. But flying was strictly for the birds.
- The Neanderthal Man: [flapping his arms enthusiastically, he leaps from a sandy bluff and falls onto the beach below]
- Narrator: And continued to be so for thousands of years.
- [in ancient Greece, a man wearing makeshift wings is forced at swordpoint off a temple roof]
- Narrator: Man, eternally optimistic, kept trying.
- [a man in medieval times, also in man-made wings, jumps from a cliff, after which a variety of failed experimental flying machines from the late 1800s are depicted]
- Narrator: Encouraged by his many successes, man kept trying. Through his genius and his inventiveness, he managed to get his machines off the ground - and sometimes, he brought them down again.
- [Count Emilio Ponticelli is seen starting his flying machine]
- Narrator: All over the world, early pioneers were making flying history. And in Italy, Count Emilio Ponticelli made what many people claim was the first long-distance flight.
- [the screen widens, as Ponticelli is seen crashing about 100 feet after taking off]
- Narrator: There was no doubt about it; by nineteen hundred and ten, flying had become the rage - man had conquered the air, and people everywhere were all agog about those magnificent men in their flying machines.
- Lord Rawnsley: I believe if the Lord had intended me to fly, he would have given me wings.
- Patricia Rawnsley: You travel by train, father, but you haven't any wheels.
- Colonel: [watching Mays take off after having helped him return to the race] I think I'll get one of those, Muriel.
- Colonel's Wife: I shouldn't, Willie - you're near enough to your wings as it is.
- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: You dirty rotter! I *had* hoped that I should be dealing with a gentleman.
- Trawler Skipper: So had I.
- Richard Mays: Uh, Newton, may I have a word with you? I think I should mention... that if you continue to make advances to my fiancée, I shall knock your block off. Champagne?
- Patricia Rawnsley: "I absolutely forbid you to take my daughter flying, today or any day. Is that absolutely understood? Oh, yes, sir. Absolutely, sir." Three bags full, sir!
- Captain Rumpelstoss: [reading letter] "His Imperial Majesty the Kaiser commands... that a German officer wins the London-Paris air race. You will make arrangements accordingly."
- Count Emilio Ponticelli: Sophia? Look. I shall enter. I shall win... for Italia.
- Countess Sofia Ponticelli: But you promised.
- Count Emilio Ponticelli: Is postponed.
- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: I'm not only going to join it, dear boy. I'm going to win it.
- Patricia Rawnsley: Do you really think you have a chance, Sir Percy?
- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: Miss Rawnsley, I never leave anything to chance.
- Patricia Rawnsley: Look, Father! He's teaching her to fly!
- Lord Rawnsley: How ridiculous. Anyone can see that young woman... isn't in the least mechanically minded.
- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: [to Orvil] You caused me to crash my flying machine. I therefore intend giving you a jolly good thrashing. Ready?
- Courtney: You're not going... You're not going to sabotage it, governor?
- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: I certainly am not. You are.
- Count Manfred Von Holstein: Ach, Schweinehund! Take up your flying machine at once... and show those French idiots what a German officer can do!
- Captain Rumpelstoss: It is impossible to cross, Herr Colonel.
- Count Manfred Von Holstein: Nothing is impossible for the fatherland.
- Courtney: He's right. This'll be the one to beat, governor.
- Sir Percy Ware-Armitage: In that case, we'll have to nobble the man and not the machine. Perhaps a little cascara in his chop suey.
- [both snickering]
- Count Emilio Ponticelli: You are sure it will fly?
- Harry Popperwell: Of course it'll fly! What do you think it's gonna do, lay an egg?
- Tremayne Gascoyne: The fabulous Sir Percy took off for Paris two hours ago. He's so far in the lead, nothing can stop him. Nothing at all. Ha! Vive Sir Percy! What am I saying? He's a most ghastly person.