Quotes please...

To slip the surly bonds of Earth and dance
the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
To climb sunward and join the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, to do a hundred things you
have not dreamed of.
To wheel and soar and swing high in the sunlit
silence.
To hover there, and chase the shouting wind along,
and fling my eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
To go up, up the long, delirious burning blue
and top the wind-swept heights with easy grace
where never lark, or ever eagle flew -
And, while with silent, lifting mind I'll trod
the high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touch the face of God.

David L.
Orlando, FL

To borrow from John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

On 5/18/06 3:08 PM, in article uC3bg.6047$343.822@trnddc06, "Casey Wilson"
N2310D @ gmail.com wrote:

Hello all,

I'm working on an article for a regional magazine in California. The
spin of the article is to encourage folks to go down to their local airport
and sign up for that first lesson to get them started on either a sport or
private pilot certificate.

What I'm asking our R.A.P. community for is a concise quote to answer
the question: "Why did you want to learn to fly?"

Please tag your quote with first name, last initial, and either your
state of residence or, if not in the USA, your country code. Sorry, handles
and other cute nicks won't make the grade. If you are familiar with the
business, you know the editor has the final chop on anything that ends up on
the pages.

Go Fly!

Casey Wilson
Freelance Writer
and Photographer

I started flying because:

"...of the challenge," Casey W., CA



"To silence the whispers of my heart."
Jeff B., GA
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Just a suggestion, but for your specific request, in addition to here, you
might want to try rec.aviation.student. It's there you will find most of
those just starting out.
Dudley henriques

"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message
news:uC3bg.6047$343.822@trnddc06...
Hello all,

I'm working on an article for a regional magazine in California. The
spin of the article is to encourage folks to go down to their local
airport and sign up for that first lesson to get them started on either a
sport or private pilot certificate.

What I'm asking our R.A.P. community for is a concise quote to answer
the question: "Why did you want to learn to fly?"

Please tag your quote with first name, last initial, and either your
state of residence or, if not in the USA, your country code. Sorry,
handles and other cute nicks won't make the grade. If you are familiar
with the business, you know the editor has the final chop on anything that
ends up on the pages.

Go Fly!

Casey Wilson
Freelance Writer
and Photographer

I started flying because:

"...of the challenge," Casey W., CA

After retiring for the first time my wife bought me an intro flight
because I was driving her crazy hanging around the house. and,
surprise, surprise, I liked it...

Kingfish wrote:
New Milford, CT

Wow, I grew up in "Northville".

It's not often that you hear that town mentioned.

So that my wife and I can fly from point A to point B without stripping in
front of strangers.

Rick L. Harrison, NY

"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message
news:uC3bg.6047$343.822@trnddc06...
Hello all,

I'm working on an article for a regional magazine in California. The
spin of the article is to encourage folks to go down to their local
airport
and sign up for that first lesson to get them started on either a sport or
private pilot certificate.

What I'm asking our R.A.P. community for is a concise quote to answer
the question: "Why did you want to learn to fly?"

Please tag your quote with first name, last initial, and either your
state of residence or, if not in the USA, your country code. Sorry,
handles
and other cute nicks won't make the grade. If you are familiar with the
business, you know the editor has the final chop on anything that ends up
on
the pages.

Go Fly!

Casey Wilson
Freelance Writer
and Photographer

I started flying because:

"...of the challenge," Casey W., CA

Originally Posted by Casey Wilson

What I'm asking our R.A.P. community for is a concise quote to answer
the question: "Why did you want to learn to fly?"

For me that question is as hard to answer (or pointless) as "Why did you want to breath oxygen?" or "Why did you want to blink?" From my earliest memory I wanted to fly. I was facinated with birds, bugs, planes, rockets, Frisbees, and anything else that left the ground.

What I am embarassed to admit and wish you would convey to your readers as a bad example, is that I waited until I was nearly 40 years old before it occurred to me that I could walk into an FBO and simply say, "Teach me to fly."

I don't think many people realize that it is just that simple. Once you're inside the process, it is all quite straightforward and simple. Walk into any FBO, talk to the right person and you can be flying that very day. But until you've done that, it may not occur to you just how easy it is to start. Until you've taken that first step, many don't know that an FBO full of CFIs eager to teach are in nearly every community.

Steve C.
Memphis, TN

"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
oups.com...
I learned to fly in order to scratch a lifelong itch...

Now, of course, I know that it's a spot I can't reach !

LOL!

"Why did you want to learn to fly?"

To fly, one must learn to fly.

The human desire for flight extends into our history through DaVinci and the
beyond the legend of Icarus. Until the 20th century no man, however
great--President, King, Pharoah, Emperor, Caesar, nor all their
armies--ascended to the Footless Halls to soar through the heavens and view
the world beneath him. No temple, tower, mountain or pyramid offered them
the view or transport afforded what can be accomplished for $50 in a Cessna
152.

We are reasonably certain, however, that these great men pondered and
yearned for the experience of flight just as we ourselves have and do. We do
not question why they yearned. To fly just once is to experience that which
nearly all men and women in the vast course of human history have missed; a
significance, however, that tends to be secondary to the experience itself.

Chris Gattman
Private Pilot
Portland, Oregon

There it is. No finer point has been put to it.

"Tony" wrote in message
oups.com...
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee has given my reasons to fly better than
I can. I'll copy HIgh Flight for you. Anthony W: North Carolina (PP
SEL INST, with a couple of thousand hours wrapped inside a M20J).

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941