The QUOTES Thread (or how I learned stuff from reciting stuff other people told me)

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I will start with a few of my favorites;


"Think ahead of your aircraft"



"Fly until the last piece stops moving"



"Truly superior pilots are those who use their superior judgment to avoid those situations in which they might have to use their superior skills"



"No matter what else happens, fly the airplane"



"An airplane flies because of a principle discovered by Bernoulli, not Marconi"



"You know you’ve landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi"



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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
Seen on a wall when I went through Air Force Appreciation Course #1 (Airborne)

1. NEVER forget that your parachute was made by the lowest bidder
2. NEVER forget that if the enemy is in range, so are you
3. NEVER forget that tracer rounds work both ways

Taught in primary flight training at Columbus AFB in the early 80s...

1. The three most useless things to YOU as a pilot are: runway behind me, fuel in the fuel truck, and altitude above me
2. There is NO mission, including those in combat, that requires you to penetrate a thunderstorm
3. A pilot is NEVER lost...they may be "temporarily disoriented" but they are NEVER lost
4. IF you are ever "temporarily disoriented" take the following three steps: CLIMB, CONSERVE, and CONFESS

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