Air Controller Quotes in Hot Shots! (1991)

[Jets start their engines]

Admiral Benson: God, that's loud! My ear canals are very sensitive. They're stainless steel. Took a bullet at Corregidor, 1945. Passed straight through my head from one ear to the other. Here, look at this.

[Admiral Benson takes a handkerchief and inserts it in his left ear passing it through his head and out the right ear]

Air Controller: [air controller gets his earplugs out] We have these to hold down the sound, sir.

Admiral Benson: Oh, good. Thanks.

[Admiral Benson swallows the earplugs]

Admiral Benson: Let's hope they do the trick. Hand me the microphone, boy.

[the air traffic controller hands the Admiral the microphone, but it accidently hits the Admiral in the forehead]

Admiral Benson: Ow! Be careful! Ever since D-Day, 1944, this plate in my head has been sensitive.

[Wash Out can't read the number on the runway he's landing on]

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: I need clearance to land on runway thirty... thirty... something!

Air Controller: Thirtysomething's been cancelled.