The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!
~ Sir Richard Branson
One day, long, long ago, there was this pilot who,
surprisingly, was not full of stuff, (Real word changed)
But it was a long time ago.............
And just for one day.
~Anonymous
Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.
~Stephen Coonts, "The Cannibal Queen" 1988
It's not you're mistake that matters but it's how you recover that counts.
~Bill Cherwin, Retired flight lead of the Lima Lima Flight Team
Were' not happy till you're not happy.
~Perceived motto of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Once upon a time, a pilot asked a beautiful princess, “Will you marry me”?
The princess said, “No”!
And the pilot lived happily ever after and flew fighters all over the world and
drove hot cars and chased skinny, long-legged, flight attendants
and hunted and fished and went to movies and dated women half his age
and drank Weihenstephaner German beer and Captain Morgan and never heard
complaining and never paid child support or alimony and kept his house and guns and
ate cold leftovers, potato chips and beans and blew enormous farts and never
got cheated on while he was at work and all his friends and family thought he
was friggin’ cool.
And he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up.
The End
What kind of man would live where there is no daring?
I don't believe in taking foolish chances,
but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.
~Charles A. Lindbergh, American aviator
Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
~Carl Sagan (1934-1996) Astronomer
Pilots vs. Drones
Drones will not be late to briefings, start fights at happy hour,
destroy clubs, attempt to seduce others' dates, spill flaming hookers,
purchase huge watches, insult other services, sing O'Leary's Balls,
dance on tables, yell "Show us your t__s!" or do all of the other
things that we know win wars!
~Attributed to a USAF fighter pilot
A mile of highway will take you a mile, a mile of runway will take you anywhere.
~Steve, Blogger from Ohio
Pilots:
They are cold, steely-eyed, weapons systems managers who kill bad people
and break things. However, they can also be very charming and personable.
The average pilot, despite sometimes having a swaggering exterior, is very
much capable of such feelings as love, affection, intimacy and caring.
These feelings generally just don't involve anyone else.
~Anonymous
Beware, dear son of my heart, lest in thy new-found power thou seekest even the gates
of Olympus... These wings may bring thy freedom but may also come thy death.
~Daedalus to Icarus. After teaching his son to use his new wings of wax and feathers.
A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations
which require the use of his superior skills.
~Frank Borman - Apollo 8
Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.
~Ernest K. Gann, advice from the "old pelican."
The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.
~Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot
When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest,
cheapest object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible.
~advice given to RAF pilots during WWII
There's a lot of Hollywood bullcrap about flying. I mean, look at the
movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death.
The controls are jammed or something really important has fallen
off the plane, and these guys are talking like magpies; their lives are
flashing past their eyes, and they're flailing around in their seat. It
just doesn't happen. You don't have time to talk. You're too damn
busy trying to get out of the problem you're in to talk or ricochet
around the flight deck. Or think about what happened the night of
your senior prom.
~Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF
When asked by someone how much money flying takes:
Why, all of it!
~ Gordon Baxter
And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference
between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician;
the other is an artist in love with flight.
~E. B. Jeppesen
Never fly in the aircraft with someone braver than you.
~Richard Herman
An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one.
~Len Morgan
You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, "what they could do, I can do.
~Antoine de Saint Exupery, "Wind Sand, and Stars," 1939
The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.
~Baron Manfred von Richthofen, AKA The Red Baron
The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.
~Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it. Ride the bastard down.
~Ernest K, Gann, advice from an the "old pelican," 'The Black Watch'
A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.
~Louise Thaden
Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.
~William Kershner
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my
emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the aircraft.
~General Chuck Yeager
"Are you ever afraid when you fly?"
That's a good question. Yeah. I'm always a little afraid when I fly. That's what makes me so damn good. I've seen pilots
who weren't afraid of anything, who would forget about checking their instruments, who flew by instinct as though they
were immortal. I've pissed on the graves of those poor bastards too. The pilot who isn't a little bit afraid always screws
up and when you screw up bad in a jet, you get a corporal playing taps at the expense of the government.
~Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meecham, USMC
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been,
and there you will always long to return.
~Leonardo da Vinci
Aviation is proof, that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
~Captain Edward Rickenbacker
You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
~Amelia Earhart
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
~ Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
~ Gil Stern
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
~Bob Hoover
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in
prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.
~ Wilber Wright
There is one thing that I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax dollar will go further.
~ Werner von Braun
If black boxes survive air crashes, why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
~George Carlin
I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just a soul on a sunbeam.
~Richard Bach
