The Dam Busters1955

RAF Officer at trials:
[after another failed test of the full-sized bomb] Well, it's a bad business isn't it?

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.:
Yes, I'm afraid it is.

RAF Officer at trials:
What are you going to do?

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.:
I think I know the trouble, I must work on it again.

RAF Officer at trials:
Well, here we are on the 22nd of April. The deadline date for the raid the 19th of May. That's barely four weeks.

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.:
Give me a few more days. A week at most.

RAF Officer at trials:
If you go and change the design. the factories will never do it in time...

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.:
I shan't change the design. I must just strengthen the casing and try a new method of release.

RAF Officer at trials:
Oh well, a week from today. If it doesn't work then, we shall have to call it off. There's nothing else we can do.