» Douglas Adams✈ A male pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he’s flying, and about flying when he’s with a woman.✈ I don’t like flying because I’m afraid of crashing into a large mountain. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don’t know of any pilots that don’t have a self-interest in staying alive.✈ I’ve owned 41 airplanes. Or think about what happened the night after your senior prom.✈ Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots – who provide specialized local navigation – when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory.
You don’t have time to talk.
My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian Air Force.
. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight. » Will Durant✈ Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal the number of take-offs you’ve made.✈ If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… and of aviation. » Jonathon Swift✈ A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down – all of them trying to become random in motion.✈ We have a perfect record in aviation: we never left one up there!✈ If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it’s probably a helicopter… and therefore, unsafe.✈ What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity as slowly But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.✈ A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. Adverse yaw: When the nose of an aircraft turns away from the direction of turn. To be precise, it is ‘to learn NOT to fly wrong.’ To learn to become a pilot is to learn — not to let oneself fly too slowly.
The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” » Douglas Adams✈ I was always afraid of dying. In my profession life itself depends on accuracy.✈ Rule books are paper – they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.✈ Pilots take no special joy in walking. Don’t do nuthin dumb!✈ The guy in the airplane goes with you.
Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.Thank goodness it's Flyday! ✈ If you aren’t sweating too much before a flight, you surely havent asked enough questions. This is routine. Aviation Jargon: 45 Terms Aviation Enthusiasts Should Know. Much of it is quite funny the first eight or nine times you hear it, but unfortunately if you do a search for 'aviation humor' on the web, you're likely to see the same basic list of stuff circulated over and over and over again. I love gliders. . » Captain Rex Kramer✈ Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.✈ It’s a good landing if you can still get the doors open.
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"Now I know what a dog feels like watching The airspeed you don’t have.✈ You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food.
Landing on the ship at night is like a trip to the dentist: you may get away with no pain, but you just don’t feel comfortable.✈ If something hasn’t broken on your helicopter, it’s about to.✈ If black boxes survive air crashes, why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff?✈ The three most common expressions in aviation are, Why is it doing that?, Where are we? The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space.
Carrier jets do not flare due to increased landing distance caused by float time. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.✈ If helicopters are so safe, how come there are no vintage / classic helicopter fly-ins?✈ Flying isn’t dangerous. Aviation Dictionary - aviation terms defined with a humorous spin. ✈ The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. We sat at the end of the runway, our F-14's GE-110 motors humming, awaiting our clearance to begin… Make sure to also check out Joe’s fantastic Foxtrot Alpha contribution that puts you right in the Tomcat’s cockpit during a tense night carrier catapult launch by LCDR Joe "Smokin" Ruzicka, the last F-14 Radar Intercept Officer to fly the Tomcat Tactical…Pilot: “101, marking mom’s 230 for 25” (i.e. Crashing is what’s dangerous.✈ In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose.✈ Flying a plane is no different from riding a bicycle. If you think your luck is running low, you’d better get busy and make some more. I love rockets. I love air shows and I love taking a private charter flight over the mountains just for sight-seeing. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world’s lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.✈ Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. and Oh Crap.✈ There are only two things required to fly a modern airliner: a pilot and a dog. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is — it goes on wings.✈ Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. » Douglas Manuel✈ Stay out of clouds.