bon mots

[hihosland]

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

 

 

— Nevil Shute, 'Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer'.

 

 

[djpacro]

Studies have shown the vast majority of pilots believe they are above average in airmanship. Of course, half of us are not. But we can get better. Will you join me on a journey into the Inner Art of Airmanship? Flying the plane, grooving with gravity . . .

... Dave English

[Tomo]

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction." - Douglas MacArthur

 

 

[hihosland]

Don't drop the aircraft in order to fly the microphone.

 

 

 

 

 

[Tomo]

"An aeroplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one." - Len Morgan

 

 

[turboplanner]

"An aeroplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one." - Len Morgan

And to be a good one read the book "Fate is the hunter" by Ernest K. Gann (Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more)

 

 

[dazza 38]

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I have read that book turbo, last year, a great read.:big_grin:

 

 

[turboplanner]

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

 

 

[turboplanner]

Man who run in front of car get tired.

 

Man who run behind car get exhausted.

 

 

[DarkSarcasm]

Man who run in front of car get tired.Man who run behind car get exhausted.

:thumb_up:

 

 

[Tomo]

(at the airport)

 

"I wish I had brought the TV along, Rosa"

 

"Why's is that, Fred?"

 

"Because the tickets are on top of it"

 

 

[hihosland]

"Neither my brother nor I have the means to support both a wife and a flying machine." --Orville Wright

 

 

[hihosland]

Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

 

 

— William T. Piper, president of Piper Aircraft Corporation.

 

 

[hihosland]

Real autopilots fly Airbus

 

 

[hihosland]

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.

 

The soul that knows it not knows no release from little things.

 

Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,

 

Nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear

 

The sound of wings.

 

 

— Amelia Earhart

 

 

[gregrobertson]

To swoop and turn and dive and to play amongst the clouds,

 

To watch the sun glint on the wings above the earth bound crowds,

 

To gaze down upon a flattened earth laid out in miniature below,

 

These thrills, these pleasures,and such contentment only birds and pilots know.

 

Greg Robertson 93

 

Writen for a girlfriend who wanted to learn to fly.

 

 

[hihosland]

Flying.

 

Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

 

— Samuel Butler

 

 

[DarkSarcasm]

When we lose our fear, we become the people we envy

 

 

[dazza 38]

You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. -Paul F. Crickmore

 

 

[Guest rocketdriver]

You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. -Paul F. Crickmore

Or until you are unsure of your current position! .... at ANY speed ....

 

 

[GraemeK]

Not sure if its been mentioned before, but one of my favourites is from Keith Miller, famous Australian cricketer and wartime fighter pilot - when asked about the pressure of test cricket:

 

"Pressure, I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arѕe, playing is not."

 

(hope that's not too offensive, but that was the exact quote)

 

 

[hihosland]

An airplane flies because of a principle discovered by Bernoulli, not Marconi.

 

 

 

 

 

[hihosland]

[i'm] getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

 

 

— Amelia Earhart, comment in logbook, 1928.

 

 

[hihosland]

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

 

 

— Amelia Earhart, '20 Hrs 40 Mins,' 1928.

 

 

[hihosland]

If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger, if you pull the stick back they get smaller.

 

 

 

 

 

To go up, pull the stick back. To go down, pull the stick back harder.