Pilot stuff
"Yea, Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ,
I Shall Fear No Evil.
For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing."
"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3."
- Paul F. Crickmore ( test pilot )
A Navigator's Definition of Latitude & Longitude:
Latitude is Where We are Lost,
&
Longitude is How Long We've been Lost There!
USAF Navi-guesser
"The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire."
"If the wings are travelling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter --
however, it's probably unsafe in any case "
"When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash."
"What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies;
If ATC screws up, .... The pilot dies."
The three most common expressions (or famous last words), in aviation are:
"Why is it doing that?"
"Where are we?"
and
"Oh Shit!"
" Airspeed, altitude and brains.
Two out of three are needed to successfully complete the flight."
"Mankind has a perfect record in aviation.
We never left one up there!"
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground who is incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
"The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you."
- Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)
"There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime."
- Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970
"If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to."
"You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes FULL power to taxi to the terminal."
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