DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] ABOUT FLYING... (fwd)

Mon Jul 15 16:19:55 CDT 2002

'Way off topic!
Ralph
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:23:04 -0500
>From: Dee Rice <Dee.Rice at twdb.state.tx.us>
To: B727Willie at aol.com, gil6964 at hotmail.com, roliver2 at houston.rr.com,
     rten at metronet.com, n42222 at nortexinfo.net
Subject: ABOUT FLYING...

ABOUT FLYING...

Never trade luck for skill.

The three most common expressions in aviation are, "Why is it doing
that?",  "Where are we?" and "Crap!"

Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.

An evolution in airline flying: now a flight attendant can get a pilot
pregnant.

Airspeed, altitude or brains: two are always needed to successfully
complete the flight.

A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row
is prevarication.

I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous.

We have a perfect record in aviation: we never left one up there!

Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the
purpose of storing dead batteries.

Navy carrier pilots to Air Force pilots: Flaring is like squatting to
urinate!

Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person
on the ground incapable of understanding it.

When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten.

Layton A. Bennett: Never fly the 'A' model of anything.

The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill
you.

Jon McBride, astronaut: If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the
thing as far into the crash as possible.

Bob Hoover: If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it; ride
the sonofagun down.

Two signs over the entrance to the SR-71 pilot ready room on Kadena AB
Japan:

1. Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death I Shall Fear No Evil For I Am
At 80,000 Feet and Climbing.

2. You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.

Paul F Crickmore: Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than
you.

The three best things in life are a good landing, a good orgasm, and a good
bowel movement. The night carrier landing is one of the few opportunities
in life to experience all three at the same time.

Without ammunition the USAF would be just another expensive flying club.

Basic Flying Rules:

1. Try to stay in the middle of the air.

2. Do not go near the edges of it.

3. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground,
buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to
fly there.