What increase in wind velocity would we need to arrange that little thing?
7 seconds sound clip from the The High and the Mighty (1954) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:54:23 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- If we only had 11 minutes more of fuel.
- 11 minutes? Is that all you need? Are you sure?
- I know exactly where we are now.
- Eleven minutes more of fuel would see us through.
- What increase in wind velocity would we need to arrange that little thing?
- Twenty knots in the next hour.
- Yeah. It couldn't happen so I'm not asking.
- But if the wind swung around a little more in the tail, it could be.
- I guess they'll pick us up before we get too damp.
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