Ferrari Mailing List: Re: For CLyde, NFC

[clyde (clyderomero]

These are all true!

Clyde 
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Brian E. Buxton" <BrianBuxton [at] BuxtonMotorsports.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:34:58 
To:clyde <clyderomero [at] worldnet.att.net>
Cc:The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: [Ferrari] For CLyde, NFC


 > 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!"
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