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[Brian E. Buxton (BrianBuxton]

> Aviation Quotes
>
> Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword
> obviously never encountered automatic weapons." --
> General Douglas MacArthur
>
> "You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come
> with me." ­ USMC Gunnery Sergeant
>
> "Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death, I Shall
> Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing."
> -- At 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."
>
> "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"
>
> ³Never 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***!"
>
> ³Weather 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 one up there!"
>
> "Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a
> flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries."
>
> ³Flying the airplane is more important than radioing
> your plight to a person on the ground incapable of
> understanding 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
>
> "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
>
> "If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's
> about to."
>
> Basic Flying Rules: "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."
>
> "You know that your landing gear is up and locked when
> it takes full power to taxi to the terminal."
>
> As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental
> aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the
> crash landing, the crash truck arrives, the rescuer
> sees a bloodied pilot and asks "What happened?" The
> pilot's reply: "I don't know, I just got here myself!"