On 2015-07-10 7:30 AM, john szalay wrote:
> Charles Lindbergh <spirit@stlouis.com> wrote in
> news:38kvpalen4sqanlutv8obeel1uchtsecrr@4ax.com:
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>> 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
>>
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> 32, there are old pilots, and there are Bold pilots, but there are no
> old, bold pilots..
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33. There are three useless things - runway behind you, air space above
you and fuel you could have put on.
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