Favourite quotes about flying

My favourite was a warning from someone dear to me:
"Fly carefully: low and slow."
:-)
Uri

Tim Ward wrote:
"David Starer" DaveAtStarerDotCoDotUk wrote in message
...
Here are two of my favourite quotes about flying; what are yours?

1. Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams

2. 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.
Anon

Dave
"There are three simple rules, which, when followed, will result in a
perfect landing every time.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

Tim Ward

Death...nature's way of warning you to watch your airspeed




At 03:54 05 May 2006, wrote:
My favourite was a warning from someone dear to me:
'Fly carefully: low and slow.'
:-)
Uri

Tim Ward wrote:
'David Starer' wrote in message
...
Here are two of my favourite quotes about flying;
what are yours?

1. Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the
ground and miss.
Douglas Adams

2. 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.
Anon

Dave
'There are three simple rules, which, when followed,
will result in a
perfect landing every time.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.'

Tim Ward

Death...nature's way of warning you to watch your airspeed




At 03:54 05 May 2006, wrote:
My favourite was a warning from someone dear to me:
'Fly carefully: low and slow.'
:-)
Uri

Tim Ward wrote:
'David Starer' wrote in message
...
Here are two of my favourite quotes about flying;
what are yours?

1. Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the
ground and miss.
Douglas Adams

2. 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.
Anon

Dave
'There are three simple rules, which, when followed,
will result in a
perfect landing every time.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.'

Tim Ward

"The only time you have too much fuel is when your on fire" -probably a tug pilot!








Bagmaker

On 2006-05-02, David Starer DaveAtStarerDotCoDotUk wrote:
Here are two of my favourite quotes about flying; what are yours?

I heard this from my flight instructor:

"You need two things to keep the plane up in the air: airspeed and money."

And after a short pause he added: "And with sailplanes you don't need
that much money".


--

What makes an airplane fly?

Money.

bagmaker wrote:
"The only time you have too much fuel is when your on fire" -probably a
tug pilot!

Sir Charles Kingston-Smith, the Australian pioneer long distance flier.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

Martin Gregorie wrote:
bagmaker wrote:

"The only time you have too much fuel is when your on fire" -probably a
tug pilot!

Sir Charles Kingston-Smith, the Australian pioneer long distance flier.


There's nothing worse than a lazy, anal pedant who doesn't Google to
verify his claims, but depends upon memory...I think.

"What Martin said, but Charles Kingsford-Smith."

Frank Kingston-Smith - well-known, late aviation writer (and one of his
sons, Junior).

Heck, I'm just happy my folks gave me a name I could get backwards and
still be correct.

Pedantically,

Bob W.

Bob Whelan wrote:
Martin Gregorie wrote:

bagmaker wrote:

"The only time you have too much fuel is when your on fire" -probably a
tug pilot!

Sir Charles Kingston-Smith, the Australian pioneer long distance flier.


There's nothing worse than a lazy, anal pedant who doesn't Google to
verify his claims, but depends upon memory...I think.

"What Martin said, but Charles Kingsford-Smith."

Frank Kingston-Smith - well-known, late aviation writer (and one of his
sons, Junior).

Heck, I'm just happy my folks gave me a name I could get backwards and
still be correct.

Pedantically,

Bob W.

Nalehw Trebor?
;-)

Nwahs

Originally Posted by David Starer

Here are two of my favourite quotes about flying; what are yours?

[snippage]

Dave

Maintain thine airspeed lest the ground rise up and smite thee.

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