![]() Gann, advice from the “old pelican,” The Black Watch, 1989. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong… all my trespasses are forgiven. The whole world is yours and you’re the answer to the Wright brothers’ prayers. “It’s when things are going just right that you’d better be suspicious. Stephen Coonts, naval aviator and author. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.” “Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. “If you’re faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.” “A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I’m afraid, lying.” “I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.” “Great pilots are made not born… A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience.” John Cashman, former Chief Test Pilot, Boeing 777. That’s a fundamental difference in philosophy that we have versus some of the competition.” We make it difficult, but if something in the box should behave inappropriately, the pilot can say ‘This is wrong’ and he can override it. In terms of any of our features, we don’t inhibit that totally. There’s no computer on the airplane that he cannot override or turn off if the ultimate comes. “From a safety standpoint, in our view one of the things that we do in the basic design is the pilot always has the ultimate authority of control. Jimmy Haizlip, commenting on his only flight in the Gee Bee. The next surprise I got was when I landed she stalled at a hundred and ten miles an hour.” “My first shock came when I touched the rudder. Wolfgang Langewiesche, first words of Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying, 1944. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one but the difference is - it goes on wings.” “Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. Therefore I am offering up some of my favorites. ![]() First and foremost, it is about staying alive. ![]() Taken together, they give a pretty good idea of what flying is really all about. The site where I found this is called Great Aviation Quotes – Piloting, and there were a number of gems on the list. Massie in 1944 after the crash-landing of his B-17 while serving as a photographer.) The song popped into my head recently when researching the origin of the quote, “Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.” (It was first penned by Gerald R. It was about life in the big city, and the radio stations played it so much I became thoroughly sick of it. Stayin’ Alive is the name of a 1977 hit song by the Bee Gees. ![]()
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