bon mots

[turboplanner]

Speed doesn't kill, it's the sudden stop

 

 

[facthunter]

true.

 

Yeah. Jumping out of a window never killed anybody. It's hitting the ground that does it. N

 

 

[hihosland]

No one has ever collided with the sky.

 

 

 

 

 

[turboplanner]

No one has ever collided with the sky. 

 

Yes, they have - when the sky fell on Chooky Looky!

 

 

[hihosland]

Never stop being a kid.

 

 

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

 

 

— Richard Bach, 'Nothing by Chance,' 1963.

 

 

[hihosland]

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

 

 

 

 

 

[turboplanner]

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

 

 

[hihosland]

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

 

 

— Alexander Chase, 'Perspectives,' 1966

 

 

[RKW]

For those poor souls who have to work.....

 

The more you enjoy flying, the more your job sucks!

 

 

[facthunter]

Jobs.

 

Except if flying is your JOB... Nev

 

 

[icebob]

No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

 

 

[hihosland]

One peek is worth a thousand instrument cross-checks

 

 

[hihosland]

It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.

 

 

— Louis Blériot, 'Atlantic Monoplanes of tomorrow.'

 

 

 

[hihosland]

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery -- the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

 

 

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, introduction to 'Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead,' 1929.

 

 

[Guest Sharp End]

My definition of an optimist has to be the Luftwaffe F-104 pilot who gave up smoking!

 

— John Wiley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Sharp End]

You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach CASA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.

 

 

[DarkSarcasm]

You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach CASA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.

and so Jabiru can use the wheelbearings on the nosewheels of the J160

 

 

[turboplanner]

Who isn't pulling back the stick?

 

 

[hihosland]

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

 

 

I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

 

 

— Charles A. Lindbergh, 'The Spirit of St. Louis.'

 

 

[hihosland]

Experience is a hard teacher.

 

First comes the test,

 

then the lesson.

 

 

[DarkSarcasm]

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport…. ~Amy Johnson

 

 

[hihosland]

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . .

 

 

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

 

[turboplanner]

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

 

 

 

[Tomo]

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Thanks Turbo... I was wondering why that was the case... :thumb_up:

 

:rolleyes1:

 

 

[hihosland]

Always remember you fly an airplane with your head, not your hands.