- Disengage rotor systems. Eight-count on my mark for turbine ignition.
- You're crazy! We can't...
- Mark. Eight, seven, six, five...
- There's 45,000 pounds of thrust in those turbines. What would happen to the tail rotor?
- Two, one, ignition!
15 seconds sound clip from Airwolf (1984) - Bite of the Jackal (S1.E3) action military drama television series.
You can hear this line at 00:21:32.453 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
Quote context
[...]
- Contact. 326 Northwest. A pair in the air, one on the ground.
- Choppers. And I'll lay 10-to-1 I killed myself getting the allocations to pay for them.
- Ground Control, this is Alpha chopper.
- They hit the tail rotor. I'm losing rotor control.
- He should never have come after me.
- Disengage rotor systems. Eight-count on my mark for turbine ignition.
- Mark. Eight, seven, six, five...
- There's 45,000 pounds of thrust in those turbines. What would happen to the tail rotor?
- On first contact, he was approximately here. Less than a minute later, he was here.
- He bounced across a ridgeline, right into our lap.
- Then why is he still not in your lap?
- Because he has more guts than sense.
- We'll start searching at first light.
- We could search for a week, and in country like this, we could miss him by 50 meters.
- And while we search, he could return. The ground forces would never be able to hold him.
[...]
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