It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. Gregory “Pappy” Boyington (American Colonel During World War II) Kaufman (1889-1961, American Playwright, Director)įlying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. I like terra firma the more firma, the less terra. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn’t.Įrnest Hemingway (1898-1961, American Writer) I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.Īntoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer)įlying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.ĭouglas Adams (Born 1952, British Science Fiction Writer)Īviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.Įdward Vernon Rickenbacker (1890-1973, American Aviator, World War I Ace) The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.Īnne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-, American Author) There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash.Īmelia Earhart (1897-1937, American Aviator, Author) Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
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