Pre-Flight Check:
 Fred insists that pumping the pedals will make the wheels turn faster.
 Joe pleads with ground controllers to have Fred removed from the cockpit.

FLASHBACK -- Fred Giving Chuck Yager a lift.

 The VIN FIZ Flyer

Fred (center) with Calbraith Perry Rodgers (right) and Rodger's wife Mabel.

Here they are going over the flight plan prior to Rodger's 1911 'first-flight'

across the North American Continent.  Mabel looks on in disbelief as Rodger

cops a quick feel; is that Fred smiling?

The SIMONOCO Group was the proud sponsor of this great achievement.

Mabel and Fred got married as Rogers crossed Sheepshead Bay

(Brooklyn), NY.  Mabel changed her name to Mara in an attempt to

elude the authorities.  Both Fred and Mara were convicted of

insurance fraud.  Behind bars Fred remarked, "Who the frack thought

 he would ever make it?  Certainly not Orville!"