Quotes please...

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

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

To see the airspeed move toward the top of the yellow arc, to verify
the gauges say go, to apply back pressure and have the runway disappear
beneath the cowling. . .

If that doesn't touch someone's core, you might check their vital
signs.

On 23 May 2006 17:01:55 -0700, "Tony" wrote:

To see the airspeed move toward the top of the yellow arc, to verify
the gauges say go, to apply back pressure and have the runway disappear
beneath the cowling. . .

If that doesn't touch someone's core, you might check their vital
signs.

Boy, waiting that long to rotate would sure get MY juices flowing!

Don

How many words? I don't think I could do it in a one liner.

On Thu, 18 May 2006 19:08:10 GMT, "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


GeorgeC

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
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino

Cartoons with a Touch of Magic�
http://www.wizardofdraws.com

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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...