one o'clock
I 'll need my usual copilot , '' Tom said with a grin . `` Just did n't have time to call you before lunch . We 'll be flying down to a place called San Rosario in the Caribbean . '' At one o'clock Tom briefed the flight crews and technicians . Slim was provided with three men who had worked on the original model of the quake deflector . After making sure that every man knew his job , Tom had the groups flown by helicopter over to the Swift Construction Company airfield . Tom and Bud 's cargo jet was the second to take off .