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Quotations on flying 🦅 airplanes ✈️ and being a pilot 👨🏼✈️ Lovingly compiled by Dave English. On the web since 1996.
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RIP John Noble Wilford. The New York Times reporter gave us some of the most magical words about the Space program. Like, “Men have landed and walked on the moon. … It was man’s first landing on another world, the realization of centuries of dreams, the fulfillment of a decade
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“We are on the line 157 337 wl rept msg we wl rept… “ Last received transmission from Earhart‘s plane. Recorded by Itasca, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter at 8:43 am on Jul 2, 1937. https://t.co/vJIHo36wvU
cbsnews.com
The documents include military reports about the search as well as memos, telegrams and newspaper clippings.
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“When you die and Saint Peter says to you, ‘Hey, when were you happiest down there?’ You're gonna say: Well, it was okay the day I got married, and I didn't much mind the day I first fell in love. But seeing the sky with the Great Waldo Pepper — oh, that beats 'em all.” RIP
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#jet #aeronautics “The turbine is the most efficient prime mover known it is possible that it will be developed for aircraft, especially if some means of driving by petrol could be devised.” Frank Whittle, Future Developments in Aircraft Design, 1928. https://t.co/PGf82511qq
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Great article showing how often fakey fake lines are passed off as quotations from famous people. Rest assured gentle reader that I’m working to verify and correctly cite all the aviation quotes! https://t.co/XH32j1dTtU
nytimes.com
Couples often hunt for poetic lines to use in their vows or décor, but many famous quotations about love attributed to Mark Twain, Albert Einstein or Bob Marley were never said by them.
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“There is an art to flying an aircraft that no amount of computer learning and algorithms can replace. If you are not feeling it, you are not flying. You are a passenger.” Kevin Garrison, in response to @flyingmagazine, @AVweb, @planeandpilot using AI: https://t.co/c0e8QFcqc6
avbrief.org
There is so much more to flying that a computer cannot comprehend.
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#aerodynamics #relativity #fluiddynamics #Heisenberg “When I meet God, I’m going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he’ll have an answer for the first.” Attributed to Werner Heisenberg, but there's no proof he ever said it.
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RIP Felix Baumgartner: “I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.” After jumping from 128,100 feet and going supersonic during freefall. 14 October 2012. https://t.co/KNvN8slOqt
xcmag.com
Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian skydiver, Base jumper and Red Bull pilot who jumped from the edge of space, has died in a paramotoring accident in Italy.
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#safety #safetyposter #flying #seaplane “Warning! Consider the possible consequences if you are careless in your work.” L. N. Britton 1917 US safety poster. Retrieved from the Library of Congress https://t.co/f8j7VoQIDO.
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RIP #FredSmith: “The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible.” Attributed to a Yale University management professor, in response to Frederick Smith’s 1969 undergraduate paper proposing reliable overnight delivery
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#flying #langewiesche #cockpit “The cockpit is the deepest, most protective, most private sort of home.” RIP William Langewiesche. https://t.co/bZRVNEsV65
nytimes.com
He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.
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#OTD 106 years ago: “We are safely on the other side of the pond. The job is finished.” Lieutenant Commander Albert 'Putty' Read Radio transmission after first transatlantic air crossing, Lisbon, 27 May 1919. The six-man US Navy crew were ordered to continue to Plymouth,
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#age65 #flying #retirement #airlines #FAA “It may be necessary for the regulatory agency to fix some suitable age for retirement.” C. R. Smith Chairman of American Airlines, letter to his friend Elwood Quesada, appointed as the FAA's first administrator the year before, regards
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