Here at Aperture Science North American Aviation, we're committed to providing you with the best flying experience possible. And nothing is more important to flying than the pilot. At least, not until we develop self-flying planes or robots to do it for us. But for now, that's you!

Anyway, some of the eggheads were considering ways to let the pilot - you - see better out of the plane. They came up with putting the canopy on top of the fuselage and having plexiglas all around, to see behind you.

So I fired them all. Every single one. Planes don't fly backwards after all, and we're always thinking forward here. Only problem is, there's a big, fat engine in the way. So we removed that too. That's right, we've built the world's first engine-less plane. Don't confuse it with any of that "glider" nonsense, this baby's powered, just not by an engine. What does power it is a company secret, but I can tell you that it involves small rodents, wheels, and a lot of caffeine.

Once we got that pesky engine out of there, we could get rid of the rest of the nose and the propeller, too. Replaced the instrument panel with a big old piece of clear plastic, and the YP-51-2 should provide you with the best view possible out of an aircraft. I'd like to see the boys at Black Mesa Lockheed top that one.

Now, before you get too excited and go hot-rodding around in your, well, our, new plane, the team at the wind tunnel put together a list of things they wanted me to warn you about. Nothing serious, just some safety measures. Caroline, where did I put that list? (paper rustles) Ah, there it is. What a whopper.

Well test pilot, I know my time is valuable and I'm sure you think yours is too, so instead of reading off all of these, I'll just skim it and give you the important ones. They'd probably put those at the top of the list, right?

Let's see here, uh 'do not perform left-hand turns,' 'do not touch mixture control,' 'do not perform manned test flights...' Caroline, who made this list? Tell him that science never got done by saying "do not." And when you're done telling him that, have security escort the whole team out of the building, because they're fired. Alright, listen test pilot, just climb in there and take it easy. Don't worry too much about it, just keep calm and do not crash my plane, okay?

Cave Johnson Dutch Kindelberger, we're done here.