one six
thousand.
The Co-pilot is working on the planes altitude when his hands
slip off the controls. His eyes flutter, then:
CO-PILOT
Captain, I dont..cant..
He passes out. The Captain, HUGH STAMP, turns to verify that the
relief pilot is also unconscious at the controls.
He then removes his oxygen mask, sets the autopilot, inputting
numbers to slow the plane and descend. As the craft tit
Mr. Ebbers was not interested in business details, operations, and fundamentals, preferring only the deal.
When he got involved in operations, he was more like a small business person.
WorldCom didn’t have a good management team.
“WorldCom wasn’t operated at all, it was just on autopilot, using bubble gum an Band-Aids as solutions to its problems.”
The billing system for W
pilots rolled their planes as they returned to base, it would change the radio signal reflected back.
2. Watson-Watt. the British developed the first active identify friend or foe (IFF) system.
>>They put a transmitter on each British plane. When it received signals from radar stations on the ground, it began broadcasting a signal back that identified the aircraft as friendly. RFID works on t
pilots radioed from the
ground that they were all
alive. Their position was
fixed by the transponder
beacon onboard the chopper.
(points)
Here.
Schaefer studies the map. He looks up at Philips.
SCHAEFER
Thats over the border,
General.
PHILIPS
(dead serious)
Thats the problem. Apparently
they strayed off course.
(pause)
Were certain theyve been
captured by the guerrillas.
Schaefer looks up, puffin
pilots radioed from the
ground that they were all
alive. Their position was
fixed by the transponder
beacon onboard the chopper.
(points)
Here.
Schaefer studies the map. He looks up at Philips.
SCHAEFER
Thats over the border,
General.
PHILIPS
(dead serious)
Thats the problem. Apparently
they strayed off course.
(pause)
Were certain theyve been
captured by the guerrillas.
Schaefer looks up, puffin
pilot error," hmm?
HAYES
Im really not prepared for any kind
of in-depth review of --
DEHAVEN
Id like to think our next Secretary
of the Navy would be prepared for
anything, Mr. Hayes.
A humorless smile. Shes roasting his nuts over an open
fire, and everyone knows it.
HAYES
The commission concluded that the
aviator in question failed to
execute a proper approach to the
carrier.
DEHAVEN
That aside
PEARL HARBOR
by
Randall Wallace
EARLY DRAFT
Out of BLACK we hear the sound of an airplane roaring by.
EXT. POV OF AN AIRPLANE
Flying over American heartland. We see the earth through the
pilots perspective as sky and ground swap positions, the
plane swooping down and storming over the ground.
THE PLANE
is a biplane, racing over a field lush with young plants. It
releases a trail of crop spray, an
auto. Rapid-fire.
Rapid-fire.
- Armor piercing. - Armor piercing.
Drop dead, Dredd !
- Double whammy. - Double whammy.
Mega City municipal code :
Willful destruction of property. Thats two years.
Code : lllegal possession of assault weapons, five years.
Code : Resisting arrest, years !
Thank you, Hershey.
And code :
The first degree murder of a Street Judge.
Let me guess. Life.
Death.
Courts adjo
auto Glock-22, and the transmitter pack for
the ear-piece slung on the other. He slips on a formal jacket,
concealing the rig. Then a final touch. A little aftershave
from a tiny plastic vial.
Harry adjusts his bow-tie and strides confidently out of the
shadows, crossing quickly to the main house. He looks
ultrasharp in his black tux with the white silk cummerbund and
his hair slicked back. He en
is five.
They are working together on PEARLs doll; PEARL is dressing her, while
JOHN gets on a difficult shoe.
PEARL
Stand still, Miss Jenny!
JOHN
(across her)
There! Whats so hard about that?
He proudly exhibits the shod foot.
They hear the sound of an auto engine o.s. They look o.s. and get up, PEARL
dangling the doll.
LONG SHOT -- OVER THE CHILDREN -- BEN HARPERS FORD
A Model-T Ford ap