Wisdom of those who fly
1. There is no problem so complex that it cannot simply be blamed on
the pilot. ~ Dr Earl Weiner
2. To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly
is everything. ~ Otto Lilienthal
3. Safety second is my motto. ~ Locklear
4. Speed is life, altitude is life insurance.
5. The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen. ~
Richard Bach
6. There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast! ~
Roscoe Turner
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8. Aviation is proof, that given the will, we have the capacity to
achieve the impossible. ~ Rickenbacker
10. The desire for safety stands against every great and noble
enterprise. ~ Cornelius Tactitus (circa AD 56)
11. Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even
greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any
carelessness, incapacity or neglect.
12. Lady, you want me to answer you if this old airplane is safe to
fly? Just how in the world do you think it got to be this old? ~ Jim
Tavenner
13. If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on
a fence and watch the birds; but if you really wish to learn, you must
mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial.
~ Wilbur Wright, 1901.
14. The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself
and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match
15. The greatest danger in flying is starving to death. ~ Earl C. Reed
of the T-L-R Flying Circus
16. When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane,
only then you can go flying. ~ Donald Douglas
17. In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are
usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. ~ Wilbur
Wright, September 1900.
18. I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty
19. Any damned fool can criticize, but it takes a genius to design it
in the first place. ~ Edgar Schmued
20. When asked by someone how much money flying takes: Why, all of it!
~ Gordon Baxter
21. The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy. ~
Baron Manfred Von Richthofen
22.. The aeroplane will never fly. ~ Lord haldane, Minister of War,
Britain, 1907
lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with
beauty, pierced with danger. ~ Charles A. Lindbergh
24. It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and
but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for
just the right moment to go into the air. ~ Glenn Curtiss, 1909.
25. To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness
in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. ~ Nevil Shute
the present for the future. ~ Amelia Earhart
27. Real planes use only a single stick to fly. This is why bulldozers
28. Airplanes are near perfect, all they lack is the ability to
forgive ~ Richard Collins
29. The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great,
for it to be neglected as a sport ~ Orville Wright
30. The Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely
kill you. ~ Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot
31. The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking. ~
Jonathon Swift
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