Vernon Demerest: "Sitting behind that desk made you think like a bookkeeper."
Mel Bakersfeld: "I didn't always fly a desk."
Vernon Demerest: "Well all right, Daddy. Now you tell me about when you were a war hero. You flew those pursuit jobs you could land in a parking lot. But when I'm setting down over 200,000 pounds of 707, I want something under my wheels that's plenty long and mighty dry."