Slim had some of the best lines in the movie. I once read that Kubrick hadn't told him that it was a comedy and to read the lines straight, so he did, and thats what appears in the final version of the film.
Maj. Kong speaks out on SAPP and NOE mishuns.
"Well, boys, we got [one] engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... but we got one little budge on them [nits]. At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen! "
