Quotes please...

Well said, Chris.

To me, it's like asking "why did you decide to learn to walk?"

The thing that's hard for me to understand is there are people who've
decided they DON'T want to learn to fly.

Richard Riley
Santa Ana, California
Private pilot, homebuilder.

"gatt" wrote:
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


It's a great emotionally stirring poem, no doubt. Which makes it remarkable
that some arguably great parodies of it appear to have been written:

http://www.skygod.com/quotes/flyingjokes.html#high

It's a tough call, but I find the one titled "High Flight, with FAA
Supplement" the most amusing.

"Richard Riley" wrote in message
ups.com...
Well said, Chris.

To me, it's like asking "why did you decide to learn to walk?"

The thing that's hard for me to understand is there are people who've
decided they DON'T want to learn to fly.




And those are the ones I hope never do learn to fly...




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On Fri, 19 May 2006 21:26:01 +0100, Vic7
wrote:


Casey Wilson Wrote:


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?"

The question's ass-backwards. Once past financial considerations,
phobias and low self-esteem, why would someone NOT want to learn to
fly?

Don T. California

Very nice Larry...

Jay B

On Fri, 19 May 2006 22:14:34 -0000, Jim Logajan
wrote:

"gatt" wrote:
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


It's a great emotionally stirring poem, no doubt. Which makes it remarkable
that some arguably great parodies of it appear to have been written:

http://www.skygod.com/quotes/flyingjokes.html#high

It's a tough call, but I find the one titled "High Flight, with FAA
Supplement" the most amusing.

One's mileage may vary wrt "High Flight," R. Bach and St-Ex. Gann's
pretty good. Hopkins' "Windhover" may appeal to the metaphysically
inclined:

The Windhover

To Christ our Lord

I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.

Don

On 19 May 2006 16:38:37 -0700, "Jay Beckman" wrote
in . com::

Very nice Larry...

Jay B


Thank you.

"flying is the ultimate freedom." - JohnH, Richmond VA

That's good, but what makes High Flight stay with me is that Pilot
Officer Gillespie Magee died flying so soon after he wrote that.

Touched the face of God indeed.

When Christ had risen, and talked to the disciples and was done with
his work, what did he do?

He went flying