Charles Lindbergh <spirit@stlouis.com> wrote in
news:38kvpalen4sqanlutv8obeel1uchtsecrr@4ax.com:
> Wisdom of those who fly
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>
>
> 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
>
> Douglas Adams
>
> 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
>
>
Very Nice! Thanks!
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