I saw this on a car at my local airfield:

"only pilots know why birds sing"

Triple Delta

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Terrific stuff, Greg!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Greg Burkhart" wrote in message
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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 SR-71
operating location Kadena, Japan).

You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. (Paul
F.Crickmore -test pilot)

From an old carrier sailor - 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.

Navy carrier pilots to Air Force pilots: Flaring is like squatting to
pee.

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
a
"Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh S#!+!"

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 one 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 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 W. W. II. When a prang (crash)
seems
inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the
vicinity
as slowly 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)

If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it; ride the
*******
down. (Ernest K. Gann, author &aviator)

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 someone who's been there)

"Now I know what a dog feels like watching TV." (A DC-9 captain trainee
attempting to check out on the 'glass cockpit' of an A-320).

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.