He flew the airmail in the open-cockpit days.
4 seconds sound clip from the The High and the Mighty (1954) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:10:26 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- West Airlines, Flight 7 from San Francisco now arriving, Gate 11. (2)
- Say, how old would you say Dan Roman is?
- He was flying planes before I was born.
- He flew the airmail in the open-cockpit days.
- I think he learned to fly in the First World War.
- And endurance flights, racing, old-time barnstorming.
- 10 or 15 years with TransWorld.
- In the Second World War, he flew a bomber in the Ploiesti oilfield raid.
- He took his cracks at Germany in B-17s.
[...]
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Actors: John Wayne (Dan Roman), Claire Trevor (May Holst), Robert Stack (John Sullivan), Jan Sterling (Sally McKee), Robert Newton (Gustave Pardee), Paul Fix (Frank Briscoe)
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