Favourite quotes about flying

3 keys to a long flying career;
- Avoid the terrain
- Don't run out of fuel
- Never pick up a package by it's string

Flying Magazine column from early 70's

Petri Viitanen wrote:
On 2006-05-02, David Starer DaveAtStarerDotCoDotUk wrote:

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

"David Starer" DaveAtStarerDotCoDotUk wrote:

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

No idea who they are from:


- Flying is the perfect vocation for a man who wants to feel like a boy, but
not for one who still is.

- If God had wanted woman to fly, he would have painted the sky pink.

- If God had wanted man to fly, he would have given him more money.

- To go up, pull the stick back. To go down, pull the stick back harder.

- Flying is not dangerous. Crashing is dangerous.


André

I remember something similar from a Gren Siebles (sp?)column from
Soaring many years ago. He was asking a 25,000 hour airline capt. the
secret of his success and the reply was:

be patient
avoid the terrain and
never carry a package by the string

Maule Driver wrote:
3 keys to a long flying career;
- Avoid the terrain
- Don't run out of fuel
- Never pick up a package by it's string

Flying Magazine column from early 70's

Petri Viitanen wrote:
On 2006-05-02, David Starer DaveAtStarerDotCoDotUk wrote:

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

Just because Burt Compton says, "One can usually judge the strength of
the day by the first few thermals........." doesn't mean you are the
ONE.

I just finished Moffat's update of Winning on the Wind (now called Winning II). Among many wonder quotations, I especially liked:

"For too many people thermaling is hypnotic. Be the first kid in your themal to leave."

V7

David Starer wrote:
Here are two of my favourite quotes about flying; what are yours?

"First there are the Prime pilots who get all the good planes and then
there are the Pudknockers who dream of getting the good planes... now,
what are you Pudknockers gonna have?" Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff

KK

On Wed, 10 May 2006 17:29:33 +0100, Vic7
wrote:


David Starer Wrote:
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.

V7


Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even
though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight
that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

This one sort of sums up how I feel about the sport of soaring

And then there's the ever popular..."Better to be on the ground
wishing you were in the air , than to be in the air wishing you were
on the ground."