Happy Families :ch.3:

(excerp from Happy Families ch.3, beta version by girl_starfish)

Edward took a deep breath. "We want to design and build airplanes."

"You must know that's impossible,” Dante said with patronising kindness. "Surely you realise that would take years of testing, of flight trials -- and there's simply no way that you could ever pilot, Edward."

"I'll be the pilot,"Alphonse said firmly. "We've got a codebook from an RAF pilot, and I already know most of it by heart. I should be able to get a pilot's license easily --"

"You'd need a plane first," Envy pointed out. "Or have you forgotten?"

"Even providing you had a test pilot, I'm afraid that there would be no chance of you being allowed to operate the sort of machinery used to build a plane. You must realise, Edward, that were you to have an episode while working --"

"I'll have Alphonse there, or someone else," Edward said firmly. "We'll think of a way around this."

"Be more polite when addressing an elder, Edward," Hoenheim said. "I'm sure you and your brother will figure something out. You certainly seem to have everything planned neatly."

Edward looked startled at this announcement, but Alphonse fairly glowed at the praise.