Buckholz Quotes in Firefox (1982)

RAF operator: Sir! Radar tracking reports signs of a staggered sector scramble, Northern and Southern boarder squadrons, Red Air Force. Heavy coded trafic between Biliysk and the Red Banner Fleet. Predicted activity indicates a definite lift off!

Buckholz: He's up! Great mother of god, he's up!

Maj. Gant: Oh? Where is it?

Buckholz: Russia.

[Gant studies him]

Buckholz: You've got to steal it.

Maj. Gant: But you want me to fly?

Buckholz: Yes, we want you to fly. We want you to fly the greatest warplane ever built.

Buckholz: [learning false news that Gant was shot down] Well I guess that's it. We might as well all go home.

Kenneth Aubrey: We don't know that he was shot down.

Buckholz: The hell we don't know! You tell me. An explosion over the Kara gulf, Wire COM hears it! Our reconnaissance planes report it!

Kenneth Aubrey: *We don't know* he's lost!

Buckholz: Really? Then what was all that coded stuff we intercepted between Bilyarsk and the Fire chain stations? They got him, Aubrey! They blew his ass right out of the sky!

Kenneth Aubrey: I don't know. It could mean they didn't get him. Admiral, I think that we should notify Mother 1 to begin transmitting the signal.

Admiral Curtin: Right, it's time. Arthur?

Buckholz: [softly] Yeah.

Buckholz: Major, you will be flying the most sophisticated warplane on the face of this earth.