1:15:05
Miss Riley,
what's going on in here?
1:15:07
They didn't start
that fire, Mr.Turner.
1:15:11
In the first place, you are
not a member of this classroom.
1:15:14
- Neither are you, Mr.Turner.
- [ Students Chuckling ]
1:15:16
Why don't you let the boy
defend himself?
1:15:18
And in the second place,
this rocket proves nothing.
1:15:22
You've already admitted
having lost a number of your rockets.
1:15:25
You cannot prove
conclusively...
1:15:27
- that another one of them
didn't start that fire.
- Yes, I can.
1:15:38
Are we to conclude, Mr.Hickam,
that since leaving school,
1:15:40
you've not only become an expert
in rocket science, but in
the field of trigonometry?
1:15:44
- I didn't say that I was a rock--
- Obviously, you learned more...
1:15:46
- in the coal mines
than you did in high school.
- [ Students Chuckling ]
1:15:49
Let the boy talk.
Go ahead, Homer.
1:15:53
Now, that fire was near Welch, just
under three miles from our launchpad.
1:15:57
And at the time of the fire, the
best that we could do was 1.2 miles...
1:16:02
which is exactly where we found
that rocket, Mr.Turner.
1:16:05
See, Mr.Turner, that rocket fell
for about 14 seconds, which means...
1:16:09
that it flew to an altitude
of 3,000 feet...
1:16:12
according to the equation...
1:16:14
"S" equals one-half "A"
"T" squared...
1:16:18
where "S" is the altitude,
"A" is the gravity constant-- or 32--
1:16:21
and "T" is the time it took
for that rocket to come back down.
1:16:24
- Velocity equals
acceleration times time.
- Get him, Homer, get him.
1:16:27
- Are you following this, Mr.Turner?
- [ Students Chuckling ]
1:16:30
All right,
we're all duly impressed.
1:16:33
But do you mind telling me, if you
did not start that fire, who did?
1:16:37
[ Phone Ringing ]
1:16:39
What is it?
1:16:41
Whatever it is, i-it's ingenious.
The fins are spring-loaded.
1:16:46
That isn't a rocket at all.
1:16:48
It's an aeronautical flare.
1:16:52
There's an airport here in Welch.
It's right above where the fire started.