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“Airshow flying is tough, it's even tougher if you do something stupid. Don't do nuthin dumb!”

Ifs Stupid Tough Flying Dumb Aviation Great Aviation Pilots And Flying

“Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.”

Hands Remember Feet Aviation Airplane Remember You Remembers You Great Aviation Hands And Feet

“For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.”

Kind Law Understanding Wind Demand Fairs Aviation Inclusion Pilots Requirements Compass Fellowship Charter Great Aviation Rudders Guilds

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.”

Firsts Art Strong Imagination Animal Brain Half Cutting Conflict Instruments Flesh Aviation Dozen Airplane Engineering Fierce Great Aviation

Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche

“I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.”

Source: Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight

“And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on the ground like a frightened canary every time there was a cloud in the sky. If a pilot showed an obvious preference for flying only in the best conditions he soon found himself looking for work. This was the way of his life and he had always ascended when others had found excuse to keep their feet on the ground.”

“Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.”

Flying Aviation Relaxed Great Aviation

Author:Ernest K. Gann

“It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.”

World Believe Whole Prayer Answers Brother Whole World Fats Aviation Forgiven Suspicious Great Aviation Wright Brothers World Is Yours

Author:Ernest K. Gann

“The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.”

Happens Train Aviation Emergencies Great Aviation Military Aviation

Author:Ernest K. Gann

“Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience.”

Men May Made Ends Hands Born Perfect Results Practice Sensitive Coaching Aviation Steady Pilots Great Aviation End Results Coordination Eyesight

Author:Johnnie Johnson

“Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.”

Source: West with the Night

“Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.”

Want Wells Remember Lying Sea Eternity Clouds Flight Aviation Pilots Spain Compass Great Aviation Dashing

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?”

Ifs Littles Flying Flight Aviation Pilots Rainbow Great Aviation Pilots And Flying Bluebird Wizard Of Oz Wizard Wonderful Wizard Of Oz Bird Flying Birds In Flight Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Author:Yip Harburg

“The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.”

World Flight Aviation Pilots Airplane Great Aviation Cubs Military Aviation

Author:C. Maxwell Stanley

“The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.”

Fire Too Much Boards Fuel Aviation Only Time Aircraft Great Aviation Military Aviation

Author:Charles Kingsford Smith

“Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.”

Way Feels Heaven Morning Imagine Sky Flying Flight Glorious Aviation Pilots Great Aviation Aviator Pilots And Flying Flying Free

Author:William T. Piper

“Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground.”

Littles Care Earth Concern Aviation Great Aviation Care And Concern

Book:The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

Source: The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America

“To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.”

People Home Sky Limits Flying Flight Aviation Great Aviation Sky Is The Limit

Author:Jerry Crawford

“There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.”

World Flying Flight Aviation Airplane Great Aviation Air Travel Airplanes And Flying World Is Small

Author:Wendell Willkie

“In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.”

Science Survival Flying Flight Aviation Pilots Angle Probability Arrivals Great Aviation Pilots And Flying Airborne

Author:Neil Armstrong

“Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.”

Feelings Sound Seeing Air Excited Great Things Aviation Engines Sunlight Within You Great Aviation

Author:Richard Bach

“In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”

Easier Activity Flight Aviation Pilots Great Aviation

Book:20 hrs. 40 min

Source: 20 hrs. 40 min

“Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.”

Sound One Thing Aviation Corny Great Aviation Bristol

Author:Beth Gibbons

“Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.”

Skills Gains Difficulty Philosophical Storm Reputation Hard Times Aviation Pilots Difficult Times Overcoming Adversity Tempest Skillful Great Aviation Inspirational Adversity Uplifting In Hard Times Going Through Hard Times

Author:Epicurus

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