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Pilot Truisms Subject: Wisdom for Flyers --- Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." - General Macarthur --- "You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me." - U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt. ---- "Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ... I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing." - At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Japan ---- "You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." - Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot) ---- "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire." - "Blue water Navy truism --- There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky." - From an old carrier sailor ---- "If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe." ---- "When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash." ---- "Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club." ---- "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." --- "Never trade luck for skill." ---- The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh S...!" ---- "Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers." ---- "Progress in airline flying: now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant." ---- "Airspeed, altitude and 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." ---- "Mankind has 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." ---- "Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it." This page was last updated September 02, 2008 email: dupontg@system-safety.com
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