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00:24You
00:25Fuel on
00:26Fuel on.
00:27Docks are in position.
00:29Switches are on.
00:29You sure about this, sir?
00:32When I got married, my in-laws made me Marshal of the Royal Air Force.
00:35As a result, I'm the most senior airman in the country, and I can't bloody well fly.
00:41Yes, I'm sure.
00:42Righto, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Ready!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ha!
01:30Perfect!
01:31Woo-ha!
01:39Whoa, there we are!
01:50Right.
01:52All right there, sir?
01:54Yes, yes, fine.
01:55Now it's your turn. You have control.
01:58I have control.
01:59Now remember what I told you.
02:00Keep your eye on the altimeter and the compass heading, and keep the stick level.
02:06That's very good. That's balanced.
02:12Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:20And level.
02:22Good.
02:24Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:55You fought in the Battle of Britain, didn't you?
02:58I did, sir.
02:59257 Squadron.
03:00Flying what?
03:01Spitfires.
03:02Hunnicans mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:08Should we get us started now? The ground seems terribly close.
03:12It's too low to restart, so we'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16Okay.
03:16Okay.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:37That was wonderful.
03:39Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
03:41I have control.
03:42Bye.
05:53I'm afraid to see this.
05:54I'm afraid to see this.
05:55Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this.
06:03I see.
06:08Sir.
06:10I thought you should see these.
06:16Excuse me.
06:17Excuse me.
06:18You can't go in there.
06:19Excuse me, son.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:23Thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33And we must send a warning to cover our backs.
06:40Kenneth, it should probably come from you as chief scientist.
06:44Address it to the PM.
06:46No, I'll never read it, of course.
06:48I'll never read it, of course.
06:48But the important thing is, we've sent it.
06:52I'll get you to Downing Street right away.
06:55I'll never run away.
07:08Yeah.
07:09Right there, please.
07:23If her majesty could lean forward
07:29Deep breath in
07:35And out
07:38Yes, little stuffy, ma'am
07:40It might help to open the window a crack
07:42Not while they're rehearsing
07:43Hmm
07:44What are they rehearsing?
07:50My funeral
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12:09forward-thinking government this country has ever seen.
12:15How you lost the election escapes me.
12:21Escapes us all.
12:24I believe I would be doing the British public and this country a service
12:28if I helped to usher him out of the door and you back in.
12:35And to that end, you come to me with a master plan
12:39that involves me crucifying the Tories
12:41for their failure to deal with a fog
12:44which has yet shows no sign of appearing.
12:50At present, I can see stars.
13:32CHOIR SINGS
13:53Good night.
14:08Miss Scott thank you for your conscientiousness but it's late you're
14:13home you're no good to be tired good evening to you
14:19but you're here good night sir
14:33evening Pat
14:57you haven't moved I suppose it's still a no to what coming out you mean going to
15:08the lamb flag with you sitting at the bar twinkling our ankles at every
15:12unremarkable young man in the room then letting those men buy us enough drinks
15:17for us to bring them home only to have their unremarkability confirmed to us
15:22again no thanks goodness and what will you be doing in the meantime spend time in
15:31the company of someone remarkable
15:42hear this young men and women everywhere and proclaim it far and wide the earth is yours and
15:51the fullness thereof be kind but be fierce you are needed now more than ever before
15:59take up the mantle of change for this is your time
16:05so
16:18so
16:35good morning time is 8 o'clock on the 6th december and here is the news
16:40london has been brought to a halt by dense fog which has descended overnight
16:46long queues are formed on main roads and the reports of motorists abandoning their
16:51vehicles and continuing on foot london airport is expected to be closed
16:58good god the meteorological office has issued a statement saying that a persistent anti-cyclone
17:04over london is to blame smoke from the capital's chimneys is being trapped at street level which
17:09is aggravating the fog windless conditions mean it is expected to last for some time
17:18be careful out there it's a real pea super
17:31ah is the car ready i'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive man
17:38it's what 200 yards
17:41it's been judged too hazardous man
17:47i have an appointment to see my grandmother
17:51i intend to keep that appointment
17:54if it's too hazardous to drive
17:57then there's only one thing to be done
18:38i saw that
18:40might it be possible for you to pretend that you haven't
18:45and the queen is here your majesty
18:47could you be more specific
18:49ma'am
18:51which queen
18:52queen elizabeth ma'am
18:54which one there are two
18:56the young one
18:58oh the queen
19:00i thought you was all queens they gave me a sheet
19:04we are
19:05i was the queen so long as my husband the king was alive but since he died i'm no longer
19:11the queen i'm simply queen mary
19:13my late son's widow was also the queen but upon the death of her husband she became queen elizabeth the
19:21queen mother
19:21her daughter queen elizabeth is now queen so she is
19:27the queen
19:28the queen
19:29the queen
19:31nurses and nuns have the same problem
19:34we're all called sister
19:36so you are
19:38well she's outside
19:40the queen
19:42then let her in
19:44sister
19:57bad time
19:58not at all
20:01how are you
20:03i'm always happy to see you
20:05and my mood will improve yet further if you promise me one thing name it
20:10not to ask me how i am
20:12it's all anyone ever does forget death by lung disease it's death by bad conversation
20:18all right i promise
20:21but if you are feeling up to it
20:22there was something i wanted to talk to you about
20:26fire away
20:37i was listening to the wireless this morning
20:41where they described this fog as an act of god
20:46now in your letter that you sent me
20:50you said
20:55loyalty to the ideal you have inherited is your duty above everything else
21:01because the calling comes from the highest source from god himself
21:07yes
21:10do you really believe that
21:14monarchy is god's sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth
21:19to give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards
21:22an example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives
21:28monarchy
21:29is a calling
21:30from god
21:32that is why you're crowned in an abbey not a government building
21:36why you're anointed not appointed
21:38it's an archbishop that puts the crown on your head
21:41not a minister or public servant
21:43which means
21:45which means
21:45that you are answerable to god in your duty
21:49not the public
21:52i'm not sure that my husband would agree with that
21:55he would argue that in any
21:57equitable modern society
21:59that
22:00church and state should be separated
22:03that if god has servants they're priests not kings
22:07that he would also say that he
22:09watched his own family destroyed
22:11because they were seen by the people
22:12to embody
22:13indefensible and unreasonable ideas
22:15yes
22:16but he represents a royal family of carpetbaggers and parvenues
22:20that goes back what
22:2290 years
22:24what would he know of
22:25alfred the great
22:26the rod of equity and mercy
22:28edward the confessor
22:30william the conqueror
22:31henry the eighth
22:33it's the church of england dear
22:34not the church of denmark or greece
22:41next question
22:44it's chaos out there
22:47trains disrupted
22:48air services cancelled
22:49a richmond bridge this morning
22:52visibility was officially measured at one yard
22:54that's a record low incidentally
22:58our trojan friend in downing street has been speaking to his friends at the met office
23:03they say this is just the beginning
23:06they expect it to get worse
23:08i know you would have me call a vote of no confidence
23:12and will doubtless call me over cautious for not doing so
23:15but the prime minister needs to be given a chance
23:21even if it's only to hang himself
23:23let's see how the old fool responds
23:39there you go
23:41hey
23:43hey
23:43hey
23:44hey
24:13I'm glad to see someone.
24:14Who else made it in?
24:16No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:27Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:50Ah!
24:51You made it!
24:52Bravo!
24:52I'm sorry, sir.
24:53I was just...
24:54No, no.
24:54You did well to get here.
24:56I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
24:59It wasn't easy.
25:01Just crossing the road, you take your life in your hands.
25:03Then don't.
25:04You're too important to all of us.
25:06Hardly.
25:07All I do is bring you things to sign and take them away again.
25:11And so the wheels keep turning, and the business gets done, and the country's governed.
25:20But what's my personal contribution?
25:25Ah.
25:26You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
25:31What?
25:32An ornament.
25:34A flower.
25:37By comparison, at my age, you were a published writer.
25:42And a cavalry officer posted to India, fighting local tribesmen on the northwest frontier.
25:48Who told you that?
25:49You asked me to engage in a relationship with a young man my own age.
25:54So I've been reading your autobiography.
25:57That's not quite what I had in mind.
26:00Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.
26:06The earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
26:11Be kind, but be fierce.
26:14You are needed now more than ever before.
26:19Take up the mantle of change.
26:21Stop.
26:22For this is your time.
26:29You were 24.
26:33All energy and hope, and passion and fire.
26:39It's remarkable.
26:45You found something you liked in that young man?
26:51I did.
26:52In a dark night.
26:52I didn't think so.
26:53I didn't think so.
26:57I thought you were doing the whole thing about it.
26:57I thought you were half way, so.
27:05I thought it was half way.
27:10I thought you were half way...
27:11I thought you were half way.
27:21Good morning.
27:23The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:28A serious fog that brought much the capital to a standstill yesterday continues this morning,
27:34with emergency services struggling to cope and widespread disruption reported across the nation.
27:41Flares are being used to guide motorists in parts of the capital.
27:45Trains are stopped while running hours behind schedule from major London railway stations.
27:52The Prime Minister is facing criticism of failure to deal with the mountain crisis.
27:58London airport is closed again today with all flights crowded.
28:02The unmoving fog, which is spread to over 30 miles wide, is likely to cause complete darkness by 2 o
28:09'clock this afternoon.
28:24The Prime Minister is of production.
28:25You alright?
28:28You're not?
28:31Go on, let's get you up.
28:33No!
28:34No, I'm fine, I promise!
28:38it's just because the window was open now go to work you've got a job to do
28:52let us start with the unrest in egypt where anti-colonial passions continue to run high
29:00and where our soldiers continue to come under fire from nationalist insurgents
29:05it is vital that we remain and successfully defend the suez canal a point that i will be making in
29:14person to the commonwealth heads when i host them for the weekend at checkers weather permitting
29:23indeed what is the latest information that you have about the weather it's fog ma'am it will
29:32lift eventually i was hoping for something more scientific then i will ensure that a barometric
29:39report is included in your box tomorrow complete with isobars and isohumes it has been an unusually
29:50cold winter and there are only so many things that i as prime minister am prepared to inflict on your
29:57subjects as a reward for winning a world war and prevailing over fascism evil and tyranny
30:04letting them freeze is not one of them you do not seem unduly concerned i'm not you do know that
30:12my
30:12late father wrote many years ago to your predecessors to express his deep concern about the inner city
30:20power stations that your party was building
30:26indeed and i was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time i also have sympathy with the
30:35leader articles in the newspapers today begging for blood wanting my head people have to be angry at
30:45someone but as leader one cannot simply react to everything we need the power stations we need
30:54the coal people need to burn coal to warm their homes it is weather it will pass well i do
31:03hope so
31:03not least because my husband's mood is intolerable why not being caged in like this he can't fly
31:14fly where well nowhere he's learning to fly
31:21whatever for have we not enough qualified pilots to take him where he needs to go
31:27no he wants to fly himself it's a boyhood dream it's what he's always wanted why was government not
31:34consulted because it's a private matter and i am in favor nothing you or his royal highness do is a
31:41private matter and the father of the future king of england risking his life needlessly is
31:47quite unacceptable please do not curtail my husband's personal freedoms any further
31:53you've taken away his home you've taken away his name there comes a time where one must
31:59draw a line in the sand and the job of drawing that line falls to cabinet ma'am not to
32:04you
32:04something your dear late papa would certainly have taught you had he been granted more time
32:09to complete your education
32:13and now our time is up
32:20until next week
32:37good morning the time is eight o'clock on the eighth of
32:41december and here is the news the choking eye watering fog which has already caused two days
32:46of chaos across the capital has worsened overnight the great coal burning electricity stations in
32:52battersea and fulham have attempted to reduce emissions of poisonous sulfur dioxide from their
32:57chimneys but we've been told that it is unlikely they will be able to make any significant change to
33:02the air quality the government is expected to make a statement later today
33:17come on let's get you to hospital
33:20home
33:24home
33:24home
33:24home
33:24home
33:25Shoes.
33:34For you.
33:36I'm in.
33:38And the other.
33:53I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say and hold on to me.
34:07Come along.
34:14Come along.
34:16Come along.
34:17No snails.
34:18No snails.
34:23Go, go.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:27All right.
34:28All right, all right.
34:30All right, all right.
34:31All right, all right.
34:33All right.
34:37All right.
34:38Bye-bye.
34:41All right.
34:42All right, all right.
35:00I would suggest by commissioning a public inquiry.
35:04An inquiry would be expensive.
35:09Winston people are angry.
35:11They see us as the culprits.
35:13Culpable for what? It's fog.
35:16Fog is fog. It comes, and it goes away.
35:20Well, I'm glad that the...
35:21Prime Minister finds time for liberty.
35:24Perhaps I should remind him exactly how serious the situation has now become.
35:28This morning, a suburban twain collided with a gang of well-wing workmen,
35:33killing several and injuring a great many more.
35:36In part of the capital, there is now a total breakdown in law and order.
35:40Hospitals are filling up as our citizens are breathing in poisonous sulfur dioxide.
35:54Sometimes we have sunshine.
35:58Too much sunshine, and they call it a drought.
36:01Then we have rain.
36:03Too much rain, and they call it a deluge, and find a way to blame us for that, too.
36:08It's an act of God, Bobbity. It's weather.
36:12And for better or for worse, we get a great deal of it on this island.
36:16Frankly, there are more pressing matters to deal with.
36:20Like what?
36:20What?
36:21The Duke of Edinburgh?
36:24The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:50Bobbsy.
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
36:54Are you there home?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone overhear what you're saying?
37:03No.
37:05Good.
37:09It's chaos.
37:10I know.
37:11The ward is full, every corridor too.
37:14Most of the doctors are sick now.
37:15Those that are well can't get in.
37:17It was better than this in the ward.
37:19What do you need? More equipment?
37:21Or masks?
37:22Masks are bloody useless.
37:23They're just for show to make it look like the government's doing something.
37:26Then what is needed?
37:27Money.
37:28People.
37:29Trained staff.
37:30Help is what is needed urgently.
37:33Better rest for now.
37:38Maybe I could put a word in with the people who make a difference.
37:42Such as?
37:43The Prime Minister, for example.
37:46Oh, I see you're just going to walk into Downing Street and whisper in his ear.
37:49Yes.
37:50Something like that.
37:51You know, my day's bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes.
37:55Now, excuse me.
37:57Dad.
37:58Dad.
38:00I'll show you.
38:02Dad.
38:02I'll show you.
38:09I'm out.
38:10Jim, I'm out.
38:12Jim?
38:12Where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:15Andrew's a big boy.
38:19Hey, look.
38:38How much long are you going to give the old man?
38:40The majority is tiny.
38:42A voter no confidence and he'll be toppled.
38:46You know what he calls you?
38:49Yes, I know.
38:50A sheep in sheep's clothing.
38:55Perhaps it's time to approve your nod.
39:03Very well.
39:05Let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips.
39:19Thank you, sir.
39:36Anything interesting?
39:39Yes.
39:41Care to share it?
39:43No.
39:46I'd be happy to share glide ratios and adiabatic lapse rates with you as part of a quid pro quo
39:51arrangement.
39:52One glide ratio in return for some cabinet minutes, for example.
39:57No?
39:59A dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling.
40:02These are very interesting concepts, Elizabeth.
40:04You might learn something in exchange for a foreign office briefing.
40:09Am I going to have to explain my position again?
40:12No.
40:13Good.
40:17Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
40:22for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
40:27You know what's remarkable about those words?
40:32Go on.
40:33They were written 300 years before man first got in a plane.
40:37Leonardo da Vinci.
40:42Look, Philip, I know...
40:47Lord Manbatten, Your Majesty.
40:49Uncle Dickie, what's he doing here?
40:51I know as much as you do.
40:52He said it was important, that.
41:00And Elizabeth.
41:05Hello.
41:06Came as soon as I cried.
41:09So.
41:12Oh, is...
41:13Is this a meeting with Elizabeth, your niece?
41:16My wife?
41:17Or the queen?
41:19Later, I'm afraid.
41:20Right.
41:21I don't know my place.
41:31What's the matter with him?
41:33Nothing.
41:36He's just feeling a little grounded.
41:39Ignore it.
41:41Right.
41:42All ears.
41:43I received a telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury.
41:49It seems that even among his own people, the feeling is that our Prime Minister is not able
41:53to deal with a national crisis.
41:57Indeed, he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis.
42:02Hospitals overflowing.
42:04People dying.
42:05As sovereign, you have the right to demand that a government in your name shows effective
42:11leadership, the opposition are now calling for a motion of no confidence.
42:18So, I would say, the time has come for you to summon Churchill and...
42:29And what?
42:32Insist that he go.
42:36I can't do that.
42:38You can.
42:39And should.
42:41But wouldn't that violate the Constitution?
42:45As Queen, you have the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
42:59Also, to appoint a new Prime Minister in the event of incapacity.
43:04And many would say that Churchill's behavior now constitutes incapacity.
43:10Then a revolution must come from within.
43:13They are trying.
43:15Well, then they must try harder.
43:16They will.
43:18But would prefer it to be bloodless.
43:22So I have asked for your help and influence.
43:28I cannot do it.
43:30I will not do it.
43:32Let's not forget, it was Churchill who denied Philip's children his own surname.
43:37Dickie.
43:38And insisted that you live in Buckingham Palace.
43:40As, alas, did everyone else.
43:42And now, with looters on the street and hospital corridors stacked with the dead, he is interested
43:47in only one thing.
43:51Stopping Philip flying.
43:55What?
43:56At a crisis cabinet meeting this morning when there should have only been one thing on
44:00the agenda of the unfolding national emergency, all our Prime Minister wanted to discuss
44:07this was your husband's new hobby.
44:15I'm so sorry, sir.
44:16Who are her parents?
44:19Her father is a clergyman from Suffolk.
44:21I've been noticed.
44:22I want to go to the hospital.
44:23There is an emergency meeting at the house.
44:26The meeting you must attend.
44:27The house can wait.
44:39You wish to see me, Your Majesty?
44:41Yes, Tommy.
44:45I know how much my father depended on you and how closely you worked together.
44:52Which is why I wanted to ask your advice now.
44:56It seems our Prime Minister, a man who's led the country through many crises, is no longer
45:03leading us at all.
45:07Representations have been made to me through an intermediary from the heart of the government
45:13to intercede and bid and stand down, make way for a younger man.
45:22Which brings me to my question.
45:26What are my responsibilities as Head of State?
45:33What should I do?
45:35When it's in the net of interest, how far dare I go?
45:42I'm not sure if Her Majesty is aware.
45:45But shortly before your father died, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eaton, came,
45:51begging His Late Majesty to intervene, if not on an official level,
45:56then on a personal one, as a friend.
46:00To bid the Prime Minister to resign.
46:03What did my father say?
46:05Well, His Majesty was, like his father before him,
46:09a stickler for convention and tradition,
46:12and would never have done anything that violated the Constitution
46:15or overstepped the mark.
46:20Then I have my answer.
46:21But that was His Majesty, not Your Majesty.
46:26And I do read the newspapers, and I do listen to the wireless.
46:30And the situation we're in today is quite different
46:33than the one we were in when Mr. Eaton came to see your father.
46:39Different situation, different sovereign.
46:53Wait for me here.
47:07Wait for me here.
47:22We'll get you seen as soon as we go.
47:44We'll get you seen as soon as possible.
48:03A beautiful child.
48:08I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
48:11The Queen has requested an audience.
48:14When?
48:15At your earliest convenience.
48:21All energy and hope and passion and fire.
48:31Sir.
48:44Did the newspapers know I'm here?
48:46No.
48:49But it could easily be arranged.
48:52Then do it.
48:54And tell the Queen I'll be their first thing in the morning.
49:00After the papers.
49:08No!
49:11No!
49:22No!
49:23No!
49:23No!
49:23No!
49:53The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:12Yeah, yeah.
50:13Not, but...
50:23Quiet, please, settle down.
50:26Mr. Churchill.
50:28I have witnessed scenes here today,
50:32the likes of which we have not seen since the darkest days of the Blitz.
50:39But alongside the suffering, I've also seen heroism.
50:44And where there is heroism, there will always be hope.
50:51Only God can lift the fog.
50:54But I, as Prime Minister, am in a position to ease the suffering.
51:02To that end, I pledge to make available with immediate effect
51:07more money for hospital staff,
51:10more money for equipment,
51:13and a full and independent public inquiry
51:16into the causes of air pollution
51:19to ensure that such a calamity
51:23may never befall us again.
51:30Thank you all.
51:37The Prime Minister was alone among senior politicians
51:40to visit hospitals and respond to the crisis in person,
51:43and was rewarded by cheers and applause
51:46by those suffering through the worst smog this city has ever witnessed.
51:51And the headline reads,
51:52True Leader in a Crisis.
52:00Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
52:04The parallels between his appearance yesterday
52:07and the wartime years were striking.
52:09And his personal popularity among the people remains undimmed.
52:17Hello?
52:19Clem, you still there?
52:21Hello?
52:23Clem?
52:26Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No? Right.
52:39Aren't you there?
52:42Hello?
52:44Oh!
52:46Can you hear me?
52:54Oh!
52:56Robinson?
52:57Probably only in the Gerald Ruppers
53:00Yes!
53:01The David play the видно
53:05That O.ansa
53:09In
53:33The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
53:48You asked to see me, ma'am?
53:52I did.
54:03There's a delicate matter which I felt I needed to discuss with you in person.
54:09Concerning what?
54:13Your position.
54:18My position?
54:19Yes, your position...
54:26...as Prime Minister.
54:33Go on.
54:38At that point, she hesitated.
54:41And then she asked me to pick either Khwajgi Nazimuddin of Pakistan or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
54:50Whatever for?
54:52To sit next to at dinner.
54:55She summoned you for that?
54:58No, I think she summoned me to haul me over the coals for my handling of the fog.
55:03But then the fog lifted and she had to make a decision right then and there in the room.
55:09You could see the wheels turning behind her eyes.
55:12And then she switched a tack without so much as a flicker.
55:17Clever.
55:19No, no.
55:20Not clever.
55:20Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:21Because they disarmed me and made me switch tack too.
55:26What about?
55:27About allowing Philip to learn to fly.
55:30He can now.
55:32Good.
55:34But he still has to ask cabinet permission to do rolls and spins.
55:49What, dear girl?
55:53Well, what if the fog hadn't lifted?
55:57And the government had continued to flounder.
56:01The people had continued to die.
56:04And Churchill had continued to cling to power and the country had continued to suffer.
56:10It doesn't feel right, as head of state, to do nothing.
56:15It is exactly right.
56:18Is it?
56:19But surely doing nothing is no job at all.
56:23To do nothing is the hardest job of all.
56:26And it will take every ounce of energy that you have.
56:30To be impartial is not natural, not human.
56:34People will always want you to smile or agree or frown.
56:38And the minute you do, you will have declared a position, a point of view.
56:42And that is the one thing, as sovereign, that you are not entitled to do.
56:48The less you do, the less you say, or agree, or smile.
56:53Or think, or feel, or breathe, or exist.
56:56The better.
57:01Well, that's fine for the sovereign.
57:06But where does that leave me?
57:22Sir, go on.
57:23How long would it take me to get my wings?
57:25Well, normally a trainee would spend anything between 100 and 120 hours on one of these things.
57:31Do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33That would be unusual.
57:34I know.
57:35I'm a fast learner.
57:37And believe me when I say I've got nothing else to do.
57:55I couldn't have noticed you've still got a right up.
57:58Starboard and port.
57:5918 gallons.
58:00Yes.
58:01Fancy lunch in Edinburgh.
58:03Edinburgh?
58:04They made me duke there.
58:05So I should probably show up from time to time, unless you have more pressing engagements.
58:09No, sir.
58:10All right.
58:11I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land to refuel, sir.
58:17Are you really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester.
58:21Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:44Oh, God.
58:46Donkester?
58:47I hear you say so.
58:48Oh.
58:48I am.
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