Hot Shots! (1991)

Kelly Connell: Air Controller

Quotes 

• [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.

• [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.