Though I Fly Through the Valley of
Death ... I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing!
(Sign over the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base
Kadena,
Japan).
You've never been lost until you've been lost at
Mach 3.
(Paul F. Crickmore -test
pilot)
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on
fire.
Blue water Navy truism:
There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.
(From an old carrier sailor)
If the
wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore,
unsafe.
When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have
enough power left to get you to the scene of the
crash.
Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another
expensive flying club.
What is the similarity
between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC
screws up ... the pilot dies.
Never trade luck for
skill.
The
three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh
S--t!!!!"
Weather forecasts are horoscopes with
numbers.
Progress in airline flying:
Now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant.
Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed
to successfully complete the
flight.
A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all
luck; three in a row is prevarication.
I remember when
sex was safe and flying was dangerous.
Mankind has a perfect
record in aviation; we never left anyone up
there!
Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a
flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries!
Flying the airplane is more
important than radioing your plight to a person
on the ground incapable of under-standing or doing anything about it.
When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something
was forgotten.
Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your
funeral will be held on a sunny
day.
Advice given to RAF pilots during WWII: When a prang
(crash) seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object
in the vicinity as slow and gently as possible.
The Piper Cub is the safest
airplane in the world; ...it can just barely kill
you.
(Attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test
pilot)
The Altitude above you, the
runway behind you, and the fuel not in the plane are totally worthless!!!
(Sonny Kellum, Flight Instructor)
A pilot's job is very simple.... there are 3 lights
on an aircraft, red on left wing tip, green on right wing tip, white on
the tail..... Your job, as
a pilot is to keep the plane between these 3 lights!!!!
(Sonny Kellum, Flight Instructor)
A pilot who doesn't have any
fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum.
(Jon McBride,
astronaut)
If you're faced with a
forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
(Bob Hoover - renowned aerobatic
and test pilot)
Never fly in the same cockpit with
someone braver than you!!
There is no reason to fly
through a thunderstorm in peacetime.
(Sign over squadron OPS desk at
Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970).
The three best things in life are a good landing, a
good orgasm, and, a good bowel movement. The night carrier landing is one
of the few opportunities in life where you get to experience all three at
the same time.
(Author
unknown, but surely someone who's been there)
If something
hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to!!
Try to stay in
the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be
recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and
interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.
The 2 most abundant things
in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity and I don't know which is
the more.
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