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.
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