That was better, despite being unnecessarily difficult, and Tony still watched Danvers with some dubiety like he fully expected her to find something else to fight him about. It wasn't like he had given her any reason to. After all, it felt like he was the one that would have to campaign for a place for her on the Avengers, judging by Cap's indifference. Danvers should have been appreciative.
As she spoke, Tony returned his attention to the display, calling up further relevant files on the project to hover before his eyes like they sat on an invisible globe, each page bowing out at eye level and gently curving away. The model continued to rotate at the globe's center. Some of these he scrapped, no use to Danvers, and others he sent sailing around the globe's perimeter with a flick of his wrist to snap into place in front of his most respected guest, all of them stacking together like a deck of fanned cards. It was only when she had made her point that Tony stopped, the document he had been skimming nudged downward a fraction of an inch with the finger that he meant to cast it away with, just held and hovering, and Tony peering over it.
"I was assured that you were the most capable pilot for field testing it," he remarked slowly, only then trashing the file he held and bringing up a fleet of others in a quick motion. That display was an old project that didn't make it past testing before, and recently reintroduced under new parameters. Failure wasn't exactly rare in the testing stages, especially when given to unqualified technicians. What Tony was reading told him it actually got pretty far in its previous incarnation, only to come to an abrupt and mysterious end; a strange incomplete circuit.
"I see you have some experience with the technology," he carefully observed, starting to get an understanding of the tension plaguing the conversation. The pilot had been the missing component. Everything was starting to click neatly together.