Pietenpol-List: Some thoughts before flying
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 12:17 pm
Original Posted By: Doc Mosher
-- Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Bob Seibert" SOME THOUGHTS BEFORE FLYING Keep the aeroplane in such an attitude that the air pressure is directly in the pilot's face. - Horatio C. Barber, 1916 When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten. - Robert Livingston, 'Flying The Aeronca' The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire. - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Flexible is much too rigid, in aviation you have to be fluid. - Verne Jobst If you can't afford to do something right, then be darn sure you can afford to do it wrong. - Charlie Nelson Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day. - Layton A. Bennett I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night. - Charles A. Lindbergh, to Wiley Post,1931 Never fly the 'A' model of anything. - Ed Thompson Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals. - Harry Bill Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee. - William Kershner When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible. - advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II. Instrument flying is when your mind gets a grip on the fact that there is vision beyond sight. - U.S. Navy 'Approach' magazine circa W.W.II. Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket. - Bevo Howard The Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. - attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum. - Jon McBride, astronaut If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. - Bob Hoover It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors. - Richard Leakey, after engine failure in a single engine airplane, Nairobi, Africa, 1993. If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it. Ride the bastard down. - Ernest K. Gann, advice from the 'old pelican' Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death I Shall Fear No Evil For I am 80,000 feet and Climbing. - sign over the entrance to the SR-71 squadron on Kadena AB Okinawa You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. - Paul F. Crickmore The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. - Ernest K. Gann, advice from the 'old pelican' If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. - Chuck Yeager Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you. - Richard Herman Jr, 'Firebreak' There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime. - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970. An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one. - Len Morgan ________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 12:07:24 -0500
-- Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Bob Seibert" SOME THOUGHTS BEFORE FLYING Keep the aeroplane in such an attitude that the air pressure is directly in the pilot's face. - Horatio C. Barber, 1916 When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten. - Robert Livingston, 'Flying The Aeronca' The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire. - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Flexible is much too rigid, in aviation you have to be fluid. - Verne Jobst If you can't afford to do something right, then be darn sure you can afford to do it wrong. - Charlie Nelson Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day. - Layton A. Bennett I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night. - Charles A. Lindbergh, to Wiley Post,1931 Never fly the 'A' model of anything. - Ed Thompson Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals. - Harry Bill Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee. - William Kershner When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible. - advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II. Instrument flying is when your mind gets a grip on the fact that there is vision beyond sight. - U.S. Navy 'Approach' magazine circa W.W.II. Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket. - Bevo Howard The Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. - attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum. - Jon McBride, astronaut If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. - Bob Hoover It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors. - Richard Leakey, after engine failure in a single engine airplane, Nairobi, Africa, 1993. If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it. Ride the bastard down. - Ernest K. Gann, advice from the 'old pelican' Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death I Shall Fear No Evil For I am 80,000 feet and Climbing. - sign over the entrance to the SR-71 squadron on Kadena AB Okinawa You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. - Paul F. Crickmore The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. - Ernest K. Gann, advice from the 'old pelican' If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. - Chuck Yeager Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you. - Richard Herman Jr, 'Firebreak' There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime. - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970. An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one. - Len Morgan ________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 12:07:24 -0500