Negative. We can climb, but we don't want to use the fuel to do it.
5 seconds sound clip from the The High and the Mighty (1954) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:37:54 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Five degrees north of our course.
- We're awful glad to know you're around.
- Say, can you guys climb any higher?
- Out of this stuff interception would be a lot easier.
- Negative. We can climb, but we don't want to use the fuel to do it.
- Every gallon's a mile nearer shore for us.
- Okay. We'll find you anyway.
- I don't mean the airplane. I mean us, our future.
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