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[Random Quote] - Screw up and you'll be flying rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong... - (Added by: Flapster)
List of all the random quotes
Poster Quote Date Added Delete Edit
Administrator Think positive, Flaps negative. 2003-03-17 10:36 AM Delete Edit
CurtL33 Keep Thermalling - Gravity sucks, but it's the law ... 2003-03-17 11:40 AM Delete Edit
Erwin There's no place like the cloudbase 2003-03-18 1:36 PM Delete Edit
Paul in AZ To Turn is to admit defeat! 2003-03-18 6:43 PM Delete Edit
Dan "You've gotta be tough, If you're gonna be stupid" 2003-03-18 10:31 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Being afraid is just a waste of time. You live your life and you die when it's time. You don't practice bleeding, you just do it when the time comes" Chuck Yeager 2003-03-18 10:35 PM Delete Edit
Administrator "I'll be Back" Arnie in Terminator 2003-03-18 10:56 PM Delete Edit
Administrator "Take a higher tow theres wave" Tony Soar Minden 2003-03-18 10:56 PM Delete Edit
Dan When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. 2003-03-18 10:57 PM Delete Edit
Dan My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.. Richard Bach 2003-03-18 10:58 PM Delete Edit
Dan I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . .Antoine De Saint Exupery 2003-03-18 10:59 PM Delete Edit
Dan After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."— Charles 'Chuck' Yeager, regards his first flight. 2003-03-18 11:06 PM Delete Edit
Dan To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything.— Otto Lilienthal 2003-03-18 11:06 PM Delete Edit
Dan There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!— Roscoe Turner 2003-03-18 11:07 PM Delete Edit
Dan It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 2003-03-18 11:08 PM Delete Edit
Dan Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.— José Maria Velasco Ibarra, President of Ecuador. 2003-03-18 11:12 PM Delete Edit
Dan Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.— Batman costume warning label, Wal-Mart, 1995. 2003-03-18 11:13 PM Delete Edit
Dan Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying— Neil Armstrong. 2003-03-18 11:20 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."Physicist, Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, [ENGLAND] 1885 2003-03-18 11:26 PM Delete Edit
Dan "One good hole in the overcast is worth ten published approaches" 2003-03-18 11:34 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Bother" said Pooh when his engine stalled on take-off. 2003-03-18 11:37 PM Delete Edit
Openclass O-GOD! Just one more thermal so I can make it home. 2003-03-19 4:02 AM Delete Edit
Flopster Height at the line is waste of time... 2003-03-19 6:51 AM Delete Edit
zerocinco "Call it."...Orville Wright 2003-03-19 11:37 AM Delete Edit
PilotNX211 Sun don't shine on a sittin dogs ass, and if all God gave you are lemons, well, make lemonade. 2003-03-19 3:56 PM Delete Edit
kenward Love is like racing a snowmobile at top speed across the frozen tundra. Suddenly it catches an edge, flipping over and pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. - PJ O'rourke 2003-03-20 1:51 AM Delete Edit
Michael "Hey! You! Get off of my cloud" - Famous glider pilot - Mick Jagger 2003-03-20 10:52 AM Delete Edit
zerocinco People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening...Jack Handy 2003-03-20 12:41 PM Delete Edit
zerocinco Flying an aeroplane with only a single propeller to keep you in the air. Can you imagine that?--Capt Picard 2003-03-20 12:42 PM Delete Edit
zerocinco Hey, everybody -- watch this! 2003-03-20 12:44 PM Delete Edit
zerocinco "About the time I come up over the wire, the #1 jug went over the top wing and she started poppin' like a dog shittin' peach seeds"-Joe Leisman 2003-03-20 12:46 PM Delete Edit
xcnick "Good pilots don't need motors" my mom 2003-03-21 11:36 AM Delete Edit
kimobear If you can see it over the nose you can't reach it. 2003-03-21 9:41 PM Delete Edit
verhulst "A spin is a normal mode of flight - unsuitable for landing" Unknown British aerodynamycist 2003-03-21 9:51 PM Delete Edit
bkorves "Chicken Little was right" 2003-03-22 11:19 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Keep the aeroplane in such an attitude that the air pressure is directly in the pilot's face. - Horatio C. Barber, 1916 2003-03-24 9:54 AM Delete Edit
Ravan When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten. - Robert Livingston, 'Flying The Aeronca' 2003-03-24 9:54 AM Delete Edit
Ravan The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, sometime before his death in the 1920's 2003-03-24 9:55 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day. - Layton A. Bennett 2003-03-24 9:55 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Never fly the 'A' model of anything. - Ed Thompson 2003-03-24 9:56 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the Rudder Pedals. Harry Bill 2003-03-24 9:56 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee. - William Kershner 2003-03-24 9:57 AM Delete Edit
Ravan When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible. - advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II. 2003-03-24 9:57 AM Delete Edit
Ravan If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. - Bob Hoover 2003-03-24 9:58 AM Delete Edit
Ravan The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. - Ernest K. Gann, advice from the 'old pelican' 2003-03-24 9:58 AM Delete Edit
Ravan If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. - Chuck Yeager 2003-03-24 9:59 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you. -Richard Herman Jr., 'Firebreak' 2003-03-24 9:59 AM Delete Edit
Ravan An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one - Len Morgan 2003-03-24 10:00 AM Delete Edit
Ravan I give that landing a 9 . . . on the Richter scale 2003-03-24 10:00 AM Delete Edit
Ravan New FAA motto: We're not happy until you're not happy 2003-03-24 10:01 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Every one already knows the definition of a 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. But very few know the definition of a 'great landing.' It's one after which you can use the airplane another time 2003-03-24 10:48 AM Delete Edit
bpattonsoa Sometimes its bettter to be high than good 2003-03-24 11:06 AM Delete Edit
Daven You can sleep in your glider, but you can't fly your house! - Kate Porter 2003-03-24 4:05 PM Delete Edit
steve I'd rather be lucky than good any day 2003-03-24 9:31 PM Delete Edit
steve The dangers of the air are not what most pilots think they are. We are often cocky at the wrong time. And often we are afraid at the wrong time. -W. Langewiesche 2003-03-24 9:52 PM Delete Edit
Tim (of the Blanik...) never trust anything that needs flaps to achieve K-13 performance 2003-03-25 7:14 AM Delete Edit
Tim Wood is good, glass is class, but only tin can win 2003-03-25 7:15 AM Delete Edit
Tim Fly it?!? I wouldn't walk underneath it...! 2003-03-25 7:15 AM Delete Edit
Flapster "Flying a PW5 is like masturbating with a cheese grater- vaguely amusing but mostly very unplesant." Terry Delore 2003-03-25 10:10 AM Delete Edit
Sven Never walk past an open cockpit - Chuck Yeager 2003-03-25 2:40 PM Delete Edit
Howard There are old pilots and bold pilots, but, no old/bold pilots 2003-03-25 10:12 PM Delete Edit
Howard There I was, upside down, nothing on the clock but the makers name, and it wasn't even "Smiths" 2003-03-25 10:16 PM Delete Edit
Ernie some times it is better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than being in the air wishing you'd be on the ground ;-) 2003-03-26 1:39 AM Delete Edit
Ernie no pain - no gain (from the times when the gliders didn't fly on their own) 2003-03-26 1:40 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey "... what is your height and position?", " I'm 5 foot 10, sitting in a glider" 2003-03-26 4:26 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey There must be lift around here somewhere. 2003-03-26 4:38 AM Delete Edit
Tim There are 2 sorts of pilots that land wheels up: those that have, and those that will 2003-03-26 7:03 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey If you can navigate by reading the roadsigns you're too *****y low. 2003-03-26 7:40 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey "There is a substitute for span, it's skill, but you can buy span." - Platypus 2003-03-26 7:47 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey "Flying is the art of throwing yourself at the ground, and missing" - Douglas Adams 2003-03-26 7:54 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey You can only ever tie the record for the lowest beatup. 2003-03-26 7:59 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey If the other guy hasn't seen you, they can write "he had the right of way" on your gravestone. 2003-03-26 8:34 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey If you're going to land wheel up, do it on grass while no-one is watching. 2003-03-26 8:37 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey Aviate, Navigate, Communicate 2003-03-26 9:49 AM Delete Edit
MaD How can they know the joy of living, them who cannot fly? - Douglas Bader 2003-03-26 1:22 PM Delete Edit
MaD Why walk when you can soar? 2003-03-26 1:22 PM Delete Edit
MaD The sky is the limit 2003-03-26 1:22 PM Delete Edit
J.Y. The most important thing to have when you are flying is speed, if you do not have speed you are not flying. 2003-03-26 6:01 PM Delete Edit
J.Y. As an old Indian friend of mine used to say " See you at the TP" 2003-03-26 6:04 PM Delete Edit
J.Y. Most usless radio call "Bravo Bravo switch on your radio" 2003-03-26 6:11 PM Delete Edit
J.Y. "Press on Press on Roundout" 2003-03-26 6:12 PM Delete Edit
Dan The sky is not the limit. The ground is the limit. 2003-03-27 12:39 AM Delete Edit
ciciliati God does not subtract from one's alloted time on Earth those hours spent flying. --unknown 2003-03-27 8:09 AM Delete Edit
ciciliati Mom's advice to the pilot: "Darling, be careful! Don't go fast! And don't go high!" 2003-03-27 8:27 AM Delete Edit
JPB Circling provides no speed @ XC 2003-03-27 11:34 AM Delete Edit
MaD There's nothing less useful than the runway behind you, the air above you or a second ago. 2003-03-27 2:36 PM Delete Edit
MaD How can you know what heights you are able to achieve before you spread your wings? - University T-shirt 2003-03-27 2:45 PM Delete Edit
Ben Starreveld Glider pilots do it silent 2003-03-27 3:16 PM Delete Edit
Ben Starreveld There is no such thing as gravity. The earth just sucks... 2003-03-27 3:22 PM Delete Edit
Ben Starreveld "Takeoffs are optional, landings are mandatory" (James McLaughlin) 2003-03-27 3:31 PM Delete Edit
Flapster "A superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid getting into situations which require his superior skill" 2003-03-27 3:38 PM Delete Edit
Flapster "There is one type of pilot who lands wheels-up: he who has and has got it into his head everyone else will.." 2003-03-27 3:45 PM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey "We don't need an undercarriage alarm, only an idiot would land wheels up" 2003-03-27 6:22 PM Delete Edit
Flapster Call the ball, Mav 2003-03-28 6:50 AM Delete Edit
Flapster Negative, Ghostrider, the pattern is full... 2003-03-28 6:51 AM Delete Edit
Flapster Screw up and you'll be flying rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong... 2003-03-28 6:52 AM Delete Edit
MaD Du bist mein Segelflug (You are my glider flight) - Herbert Grönemeyer, German pop star, in a love song! 2003-03-28 10:17 AM Delete Edit
Pedro Duarte There are two sorts of pilots: those who land badly and the liars. 2003-03-28 12:31 PM Delete Edit
cirrusfmu Those who hoot with the owls at night cannot soar with the eagles at dawn. 2003-03-29 9:46 AM Delete Edit
Ben Starreveld Let's make a 360 back home 2003-03-30 8:02 AM Delete Edit
Dan Most useless radio call..."Hey, your mike button is stuck" 2003-03-30 11:32 PM Delete Edit
Dan "I thought YOU took the aileron locks off"? 2003-03-30 11:34 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Wow, I've never seen a Grob bounce 18 times before" 2003-03-30 11:36 PM Delete Edit
Dan Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges. The edges of the air can be recognised by the apperance of ground, buildings, sea, trees, and intersteller space. 2003-03-30 11:40 PM Delete Edit
Dan It's better to break ground and head into the wind, than to break wind and head into the ground 2003-03-30 11:42 PM Delete Edit
Dan "If it's ugly, it's British. If it's weird, it's French. If it'e ugly & weird, it's Russian 2003-03-30 11:44 PM Delete Edit
Dan Forget all about lift, gravity, thrust and drag, an airplane flys because of money. If God had meant for man to fly, He would have given him more money. 2003-03-30 11:47 PM Delete Edit
Dan You're going to have to make up your mind about groing up and being a pilot, 'cause you can't do both. 2003-03-30 11:50 PM Delete Edit
Dan "The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down" ...Chuck Yeager 2003-03-30 11:51 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Wheelbarrows were invented to teach the FAA how to walk on their hind legs. 2003-03-30 11:53 PM Delete Edit
Zulu9 It takes a big dog to weigh a ton! 2003-03-31 3:08 AM Delete Edit
steve He's just another projectile in search of a grid reference 2003-03-31 10:31 PM Delete Edit
Ray Lovinggood This thermal is so good, it makes my nipples hard! 2003-04-01 6:06 PM Delete Edit
jt_whyme "if its ugly, wierd and flies like a turd its american" 2003-04-02 3:30 PM Delete Edit
jt_whyme "Wood is good, glass is class, if its tin... in the bin." 2003-04-02 3:36 PM Delete Edit
SAM I got into XC sailplane racing for the prize $$ and the groupies... 2003-04-03 5:48 PM Delete Edit
SAM I'm going to install my office window at the clubhouse because conditions always look better through that window. 2003-04-03 5:50 PM Delete Edit
Howard What happens when the wind stops? 2003-04-04 3:00 AM Delete Edit
Howard Are glider crashes fatal? Only once. 2003-04-04 3:02 AM Delete Edit
Nick I fly for fun. But winning, itself, is good fun - Ingo Renner 2003-04-04 3:42 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey Rule 1 : No crashing 2003-04-04 11:03 AM Delete Edit
Dan It looks good.....You go first. 2003-04-05 1:35 AM Delete Edit
henell I wish you would keep your tug in station in front of my glider! 2003-04-05 7:22 AM Delete Edit
Nyal Never let the yaw string point toward the ground. 2003-04-05 7:39 PM Delete Edit
Dan "We want to be free! Free to do what we want to do! We want to be free to ride! To ride our machines without being hassled by the man! We want to get loaded! And we want to have a good time! And that's what we're gonna do! We're gonna have a good time! We're gonna have a party!"...Peter Fonda, The Wild Angels...1966 2003-04-06 1:39 AM Delete Edit
henell Old Chinese proverb,Man who fly lowly slowly, diggee big holey! 2003-04-06 7:06 AM Delete Edit
henell Chinese proverb, "Man who fly base leg with wind up a'' " e, got rocks in head. 2003-04-06 7:09 AM Delete Edit
airgonzo The early bird may get the worm, But, The SECOND mouse gets the cheese! 2003-04-06 11:48 AM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR Man,I flew that (enter task here) slow. I got a bird-stike -- from behind!! 2003-04-06 8:36 PM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR For a naval aviator, there are three important things in life: a good landing, a good bowel movement and a good orgasm. A carrier landing in bad weather at night may afford you to experience all of those three thing at once! 2003-04-06 8:42 PM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR "2-33 - we are both at 750ft, do you want to enter down-wind now?" -- Response: " No, go ahead, I want to burn off some more altitude" - - Shortly before hitting a tree because of wrong altimeter setting! (Sad, but true) 2003-04-06 8:46 PM Delete Edit
bpattonsoa "Hell yes its is dangerous... you could get addicted" Les Sebald to a ride customer at Truckee 2003-04-06 10:54 PM Delete Edit
Dan The computer says I've got it made. 2003-04-07 11:27 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Take me to a thermal, and tell me when it's good" 2003-04-07 11:28 PM Delete Edit
Dan I don't think the strong stuff will be here for awhile. 2003-04-07 11:30 PM Delete Edit
Nimbus3 Fly with the eagles or scratch with the chickens. 2003-04-08 2:59 PM Delete Edit
Dan The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity...Harlan Ellison-1934 2003-04-10 2:20 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. 2003-04-10 8:43 AM Delete Edit
Nyal I hate this stuff! I only do it because my wife wants to be married to a glider pilot. 2003-04-12 3:05 AM Delete Edit
MaD When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No-one has ever collided with the sky. 2003-04-12 10:46 AM Delete Edit
MaD It's easy to make a little fortune in soaring - simply start off with a big one. 2003-04-12 10:48 AM Delete Edit
MaD It's always a good idea to keep the pointy end going forward as much as possible. 2003-04-12 10:50 AM Delete Edit
MaD Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous. 2003-04-12 10:51 AM Delete Edit
MaD You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck. 2003-04-12 10:54 AM Delete Edit
Tim Grob is the Russian word for coffin 2003-04-15 10:34 AM Delete Edit
Dan "This is called the artificial horizon...Much better than the actual horizon" - Steven Wright 2003-04-16 4:03 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Flying a plane is no harder than riding a bicycle. It's just alot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes" - Airplane 2003-04-16 4:32 PM Delete Edit
Dan *The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. (William Clayton) 2003-04-16 4:44 PM Delete Edit
Dan *"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." - John Lehman (US secretary of the Navy) 2003-04-16 4:47 PM Delete Edit
Dan *Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life. (Tom Waits) 2003-04-16 4:48 PM Delete Edit
Dan *There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. (Steven Wright) 2003-04-16 4:49 PM Delete Edit
Dan Have you ever noticed.... Anybody FLYING slower than you is an idiot, and anyone FLYING faster than you is a maniac? - George Carlin (modified) 2003-04-16 4:51 PM Delete Edit
cirrusfmu Every time I land, my glider falls over. What am I doing wrong? 2003-04-16 7:27 PM Delete Edit
cirrusfmu This is the houses lever. Push it forward and the houses get bigger. Pull it back and they get smaller. Keep pulling back and the houses get bigger again very quickly! 2003-04-16 7:46 PM Delete Edit
GoGliding.org.uk glider pilots are the only people that love going round and round in circles 2003-04-19 2:51 PM Delete Edit
Ged propellor's are only there to keep power jocks cool.........don't believe me ? you watch em break into a sweat when it stops ;-) 2003-04-19 4:21 PM Delete Edit
Clinton Dont worry man, birds do it all the time! 2003-04-19 10:57 PM Delete Edit
steve "There is a substitute for wingspan. It's called talent. But you can buy span." -Platypus 2003-04-23 5:09 PM Delete Edit
TimDavies anyway, my wife is very sure, that if ever it was my intention to find a mistress, I would have chosen another sport - Jan Waumans in r.a.s 2003-04-25 6:07 AM Delete Edit
cdeerinck Wood is good, glass is class, but carbon gives me a hard one... 2003-04-25 11:39 AM Delete Edit
Robertu "Every time I fly and am forced to remove my shoes, I'm grateful Richard Reid is not known as the Underwear Bomber." - Douglas Manuel 2003-04-26 11:57 PM Delete Edit
Robertu The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee. - Gunter's Second Law of Air Travel 2003-04-27 12:02 AM Delete Edit
Robertu The three worst things to hear in the cockpit: (1) The second officer says, "Oh shit!" (2) The first officer says "I have an idea!" (3) The captain says "Hey watch this!" - anon. 2003-04-27 12:05 AM Delete Edit
Robertu Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God. - Gordon Baxter 2003-04-27 12:06 AM Delete Edit
cirrusfmu Hah! Call that a sailplane?! I've seen more impressive wings on ladies sanitary products! 2003-04-27 10:54 AM Delete Edit
cirrusfmu Was that a landing or were we shot down? 2003-04-27 11:08 AM Delete Edit
cirrusfmu If flying were the language of man, soaring would be its poetry. 2003-04-27 11:17 AM Delete Edit
cirrusfmu Gliding is to power flying as seduction is to rape. 2003-04-27 11:18 AM Delete Edit
mrw If it floats, flys or f***s,rent it don't buy it--a pearl of wisdom from my grandfather 2003-05-02 6:23 PM Delete Edit
Doug Hoffman Gravity is a harsh mistress. - The Tick 2003-05-03 7:19 AM Delete Edit
adp "Nothing is ever simple." 2003-05-03 4:00 PM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR This is not an airplane - this is a bunch of airlane parts flying in a tight formation!! (Veteran Pilot seeing the Sikorsky S38 for the first time) 2003-05-06 10:41 PM Delete Edit
Doug Snyder "The student pilot is no fool" - Wolfgang Langewiesche - 'Stick and Rudder' ... Sarcasm, and ancient tradition of flight instructors ! 2003-05-11 2:59 PM Delete Edit
rbacker Time wounds all heels - Grocho Marx 2003-05-12 1:27 PM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey "Bloggs is out to get you. The more experience Bloggs has, the more devious the bastard is." - advice given to instructors 2003-05-13 9:05 AM Delete Edit
henell Up is a nice place to be 2003-05-14 9:32 AM Delete Edit
TjWard There are three simple rules for making a perfect landing: Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. 2003-05-14 5:12 PM Delete Edit
Dan'l Thermals are like bars; some are rough, some are smooth, but all are fun! - George Graham 2003-05-17 11:01 PM Delete Edit
Jim Wing loading begins at home... 2003-05-21 11:03 PM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey Words you don't want to hear together : ASH25 and "carry out". 2003-05-26 5:52 AM Delete Edit
craigf You don't learn much from the second kick of a mule. 2003-05-28 5:38 PM Delete Edit
David Starer In the unceasing battle between heavier-than-air aircraft and the ground, the ground has never lost. 2003-05-29 1:56 PM Delete Edit
jhpc "Although powered aircraft may express the language of flight, soaring is its eloquence." - Richard Miller, 1967 2003-06-06 10:41 PM Delete Edit
cirrusfmu If at first you don't succeed..... redefine success 2003-06-08 3:47 PM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR If at first you don't succeed, parachuting isn't for you! 2003-06-09 6:35 PM Delete Edit
MaD If you didn't land out you didn't go far enough 2003-06-18 4:21 PM Delete Edit
Charles A good thermal is a terrible thing to waste 2003-07-01 7:27 PM Delete Edit
Charles I never met a thermal I didn't like 2003-07-01 7:27 PM Delete Edit
Mendipair Theres no right way to do the wrong thing. 2003-07-08 6:43 AM Delete Edit
Dan I want to die quietly in my sleep, like my grandfather...Not screaming in terror like his passengers. 2003-07-17 2:42 PM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey Circling may provide no speed @ XC, but sitting in a field slows you down even more. 2003-07-24 11:21 AM Delete Edit
Dan Support bacteria. It's the only culture some people have. 2003-07-28 2:04 AM Delete Edit
Dan The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. 2003-07-28 2:06 AM Delete Edit
Dan If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you haven't tried before. 2003-07-28 2:07 AM Delete Edit
Dan If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. 2003-07-28 2:08 AM Delete Edit
Dan It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. 2003-07-28 2:10 AM Delete Edit
Dan If you go into the woods, and you say something, and there's no woman around to hear you, are you still wrong? 2003-07-28 2:14 AM Delete Edit
verhulst " flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground..... and miss" Ford Prefect , Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy 2003-07-29 11:25 AM Delete Edit
verhulst "Flying a plane is no different from riding a bicycle. It's just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes" -- Captain Rex Kramer, in the movie 'Airplane.' 2003-07-29 11:27 AM Delete Edit
verhulst "American calling Ground. I don't know who you are or where you are. Taxi approved, just don't hit anybody and stay out of the grass" - Chicago O'Hare ground controller 2003-07-29 2:19 PM Delete Edit
verhulst "Where are the guns?" Young Eagles glider passenger 2003-07-29 2:25 PM Delete Edit
verhulst Me: "why are you crying?", Young Eagles passenger: "I don't like heights very much", Me: "man, are you in the wrong place" 2003-07-29 2:31 PM Delete Edit
finalglide There is no job so important that it cannot be put off to a non-soaring day 2003-08-08 10:35 AM Delete Edit
wby0nder "If god is my co-pilot what does that make me?" 2003-08-08 11:06 PM Delete Edit
Daven If you have a female wing runner, is that considered a "Wench launch"? 2003-08-17 6:07 PM Delete Edit
k6pilot It's better to be on the ground, wishing you were in the air, than to be in the air, wishing you were on the ground 2003-08-20 9:16 AM Delete Edit
billliscomb Aviators' Prayer - "God, please don't teach me anything faster than I can learn it." 2003-08-22 9:53 AM Delete Edit
billliscomb Naval aviatiors prayer - "God, please don't let me screw up!" 2003-08-22 9:54 AM Delete Edit
gleitzahl "Only the Universe and human stupidity are infinite. But I'm not sure about the Universe" - Albert Einstein 2003-08-28 8:54 AM Delete Edit
gleitzahl "It's better to keep your mouth closed and let everybody think you are a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubts" - Mark Twain 2003-08-28 8:55 AM Delete Edit
gleitzahl "Don't do others what you wish they'd do you : their taste might be different" - G.B.Shaw 2003-08-28 8:56 AM Delete Edit
gleitzahl "It takes a woman 20 years to make her son a man, and 20 minutes to another woman to make him an idiot " - Charles Dickens 2003-08-28 8:58 AM Delete Edit
gleitzahl "Men are like parking places : the good ones are all taken, and the leftovers are handicap" 2003-08-28 8:59 AM Delete Edit
mfinegan "I ain't got time to read." - Jesse Ventura, as seen from the perspective of a former constituent. 2003-09-05 4:29 PM Delete Edit
pmarek Glider pilot is a confused soul who talks about women while being on the airfield and about gliders while being with a woman. 2003-09-12 9:20 AM Delete Edit
pmarek Without ammunition any Air Force would be just another expensive flying club 2003-09-12 9:28 AM Delete Edit
pmarek In the long list of sciences weather forecast stands just behind magic. 2003-09-12 9:30 AM Delete Edit
homesick angel Woahhhhh...now we're climbing like a homesick angel ! 2003-09-24 3:38 PM Delete Edit
homesick angel Powerpilots poke holes into the sky ! 2003-09-24 3:38 PM Delete Edit
rsworden "In a world full of people, only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy?" -Seal 2003-10-16 2:28 AM Delete Edit
Howard You've never been lost, till you're lost at Mach 3 (SR71 Squadron notice) 2003-10-22 11:59 PM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR Though I fly through the valley of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am at 80,000ft and still climbing! (Note at SR71 Operation) 2003-12-03 7:50 PM Delete Edit
JEC2003 'Any landing you can walk away from is a good one' 2004-01-16 6:25 AM Delete Edit
SZDJunior "...It's not the speed that kills, it's the sudden stops..." 2004-01-21 9:22 PM Delete Edit
cdeerinck A check ride ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything. 2004-01-22 1:05 AM Delete Edit
cdeerinck Always remember you fly a glider with your head, not your hands. 2004-01-22 1:06 AM Delete Edit
cdeerinck Never let a glider take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier. 2004-01-22 1:07 AM Delete Edit
cdeerinck Thermalling is for pilots who love to fly but have no place to go. 2004-01-22 1:07 AM Delete Edit
cdeerinck If God meant man to fly, He'd have given him more money. 2004-01-22 9:39 AM Delete Edit
cdeerinck What's the difference between God and fighter pilots? God doesn't think he's a fighter pilot. 2004-01-22 9:40 AM Delete Edit
cdeerinck Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous. 2004-01-22 9:40 AM Delete Edit
cdeerinck Asking what a pilot thinks about the FAA is like asking a tree what it thinks about dogs. 2004-01-22 9:40 AM Delete Edit
cdeerinck Any pilot who relies on a terminal forecast can be sold the Brooklyn Bridge. If he relies on winds-aloft reports he can be sold Niagara Falls. 2004-01-22 9:41 AM Delete Edit
Pug Why was the "Lennie Pin" named after a pilot who's never been above release altitude? 2004-01-30 4:35 PM Delete Edit
SZDJunior There's no problem that can't be fixed with the proper application of high explosives 2004-02-03 10:49 AM Delete Edit
clayjthom "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship." ( Louisa May Allcot) "I am afraid of storms, for they will spit me out in little pieces." (Clay Thomas) 2004-02-05 12:47 AM Delete Edit
nimbus2ius Get High, Stay High, Fly Fast, Don't Turn 2004-02-05 10:58 PM Delete Edit
verhulst If God meant man to stay on the ground, He'd have given him roots 2004-02-13 6:21 PM Delete Edit
loon Span is like "coke", once you're hooked, you just want more and more. 2004-02-14 12:17 AM Delete Edit
Mike '280' Think positive..It's always soarable until you hear the rumble of the wheel. 2004-02-16 5:01 AM Delete Edit
pmarek Instructor is unable to protect himself from foolnes of student pilot, fool is a genious. 2004-02-17 6:36 PM Delete Edit
MikePapa A fool and his money are soon flying more airplane than he can handle. 2004-02-21 4:32 PM Delete Edit
MikePapa Asking what a pilot thinks about the FAA is like asking a fireplug what it thinks about dogs. 2004-02-21 4:32 PM Delete Edit
cliffhilty I want to die like my grandfather, peaceful and asleep, not screaming like his passengers! 2004-02-23 6:14 PM Delete Edit
ogutierrez The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys 2004-02-23 11:03 PM Delete Edit
ogutierrez Think Positive: Sun=Thermal Activiy=Climb=Cross Country..... Think Negative: Sun=Thermal Activity=Climb=Sink=Land Out 2004-02-25 10:04 AM Delete Edit
pmarek Maiden flight of an aircraft should be performed by it's desinger, it's natural way of eliminating bad designers. 2004-02-27 4:22 PM Delete Edit
itsaplane There's no such thing as bad weather, just different kinds of good weather. 2004-03-02 12:37 AM Delete Edit
Pug Q: How do you tell when a PW-5 is getting ready to land? A: It releases from tow! 2004-03-04 6:21 PM Delete Edit
Pug If you want to build, build. If you want to fly, buy ( but for heaven's sake not a PW-5!). 2004-03-04 6:47 PM Delete Edit
Pug Farmer: "What's the matter? Did the wind quit?" PW-5 pilot: "Nope, I just got a crappy glider." 2004-03-04 8:35 PM Delete Edit
Pug Puchacz: Polish for "Owl". PW-5: Polish for "Dog chasing it's own tail." 2004-03-04 9:29 PM Delete Edit
SZDJunior flying is done largely with imagination 2004-03-10 12:32 AM Delete Edit
Dan "Money can't buy you happiness, but when you're poor, you can't buy shit, and nobody will loan you happiness." 2004-03-28 3:41 AM Delete Edit
f195 Where there is lift, there is sink. Where there is sink, there is more sink. 2004-04-05 9:40 AM Delete Edit
Dan "Do you hear that, Missssster Anderson?? That's the sound of inevitability." - Agent Smith 2004-04-22 2:12 PM Delete Edit
FreakyGlider676 Only thing better than doing it, is donig in in the air 2004-05-02 10:17 AM Delete Edit
WeedEater Nothing for nothing and precious little for sixpence or alternatively if it looks too good to be true, it probably is! 2004-05-04 3:27 PM Delete Edit
WeedEater No, there's no need to measure it again............ Oops! 2004-05-04 3:33 PM Delete Edit
kingman_aero Therom: A propeller is just a means to keep the pilot cool. Proof: Watch the pilot sweat when it stops spinning. 2004-05-04 7:55 PM Delete Edit
kingman_aero "On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who at the dawn of victory sat down to wait, and while waiting died." - Cecle B. Delaney 2004-05-17 1:17 PM Delete Edit
ECHO ONE SOARING...THE MOST FUN YOU CAN HAVE WITH YOUR PANTS ON !!!! 2004-06-06 2:54 PM Delete Edit
OscarDelta Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted 2004-06-09 4:52 AM Delete Edit
jhpc "Soaring is not done despite the weather and the time of day, but because of them." - Richard Miller, 1967 2004-07-01 2:39 AM Delete Edit
jhpc "The soaring pilot makes an aerial excursion, not an incursion. His passage leaves a whisper, not a shriek" - Richard Miller, 1967 2004-07-01 2:41 AM Delete Edit
jhpc "When gliding operators have attained greater skill, they can maintain themselves in the air for hours at a time" - Wilbur Wright, 1901 2004-07-01 2:49 AM Delete Edit
jhpc "We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds" - Otto Lilienthal, 1874 2004-07-01 3:06 AM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR What does a Pilot and an Air Traffic Controller have in common? If the pilot screws up, the Pilot dies. If the Air Traffic Controller screws up, the Pilot dies! 2004-07-17 10:37 PM Delete Edit
Pug Tis better to be on the ground, wishing you were in the air, than to be in the air, in a PW5! 2004-07-30 4:18 PM Delete Edit
TimDavies If you ever get the chance to go fly a gliding comp in Lithuania, go to the French Alps instead! - Anon, 2004 2004-08-18 12:05 PM Delete Edit
SZDJunior American beer is just like a sex in a canoe - F@#^%$# close to water! 2004-09-01 6:28 PM Delete Edit
griffed Soaring...The All Natural High! 2004-09-07 9:12 PM Delete Edit
Golf Fox Power pilots have all the thrust but glider pilots can keep it up all day! 2004-10-05 2:24 AM Delete Edit
Golf Fox Glider pilots can slip in anywhere 2004-10-05 2:25 AM Delete Edit
Golf Fox Right hand on the stick, left hand on the knob 2004-10-05 2:25 AM Delete Edit
Golf Fox The harder you push the faster it goes 2004-10-05 2:26 AM Delete Edit
Golf Fox If you give the wrong signals you'll never get it up 2004-10-05 2:28 AM Delete Edit
Golf Fox Pull up then down for soft release 2004-10-05 2:35 AM Delete Edit
Golf Fox What sound does a GFOX make? 2004-10-05 2:40 AM Delete Edit
Golf Fox My Standard Cirrus is an SR-20 2004-10-05 2:42 AM Delete Edit
Golf Fox Son, what's that you got in the trailer? A Scud Missile? Weapons of Mass Destruction? - New York State Trooper, October 9, 2004 2004-10-09 10:09 PM Delete Edit
Phoebus B1 This air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine,bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? --it is the same the Angels breath. ~~Mark Twain, "Roughing It," Chapter XXII, 1886 2004-10-17 7:29 AM Delete Edit
Phoebus B1 "When once you have tasted flight, you will always walk with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you always will be." Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519 2004-10-26 6:47 AM Delete Edit
wernebmz "I think I'm lost..... has anybody seen me lately?" 2004-11-24 3:12 PM Delete Edit
mas If your nose is running and your feet smell, you are flying upside down 2004-11-30 3:02 PM Delete Edit
jhpc "The air to a glider pilot is a reality... He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its flow, its laws, and to try and use this knowledge to his own ends" - Philip Wills 2004-12-01 12:32 AM Delete Edit
Pug Why was the PW5 designed with such crappy rearward visibility? Because when you fly a PW5, everything stays in front of you. 2004-12-22 2:09 AM Delete Edit
rsworden Faster. Faster! Get up to flying speed! Retract your landing gear! Raise your fuselage! Take off! --Timothy to Dumbo 2005-01-12 12:16 AM Delete Edit
BillR There are only three sizes for pilot relief system catheters: Large, Extra Large, and Unbelievable 2005-01-23 1:28 AM Delete Edit
pmarek ....and the true joy is to touch the sky.... (RF) 2005-02-04 7:59 AM Delete Edit
pmarek "Cause we all have wings, but some of us don't know why" - INXS 2005-02-04 8:15 AM Delete Edit
Pug Anyone with more span than me is a wimp, anyone with less span than me is a fool. 2005-03-01 2:38 PM Delete Edit
fourzerofive "I spent most of my money on booze, broads and sailplanes... The rest I wasted." 2005-03-20 5:49 PM Delete Edit
steve Look, mummy. There's an aeroplane up in the sky. 2005-04-12 2:15 PM Delete Edit
wingco32 "Who's flying the 'plane?".... Line from several bad aviation movies 2005-04-23 6:16 AM Delete Edit
ERGoose "Pull back, houses get smaller, pull back more, houses get bigger! I just don't get this!" 2005-05-12 12:19 AM Delete Edit
CloudCruzer It's better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, then to be in the air wishing you were on the ground !!! 2005-05-16 11:25 PM Delete Edit
Crimson03 'Greater love hath no man than that of a woman who will carefully wash down the wings of his sailplane before he goes off to fly' America's Soaring Book P.86 2005-05-23 2:35 PM Delete Edit
Diablemarin Of all the sad words of tounge and pen,the saddest are these; it might have been.-John Greenleaf Whittier 2005-05-24 11:38 PM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR ... No hell below us, Above us only sky... (John Lennon, famous 'high-flyer', in the song 'Imagne' 2005-07-28 12:59 PM Delete Edit
Openclass "Thats the slowest crash I've ever seen" Bystander watching a PW5 release from tow. 2005-08-20 9:33 PM Delete Edit
Max Payload ... perfect speed is being there! (Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull) 2005-09-08 2:25 PM Delete Edit
Max Payload ... "tower, rough timecheck please" ... "today is tuesday, son". 2005-09-08 2:31 PM Delete Edit
SZDJunior Pw5 - time well waisted. 2005-09-20 9:04 PM Delete Edit
Pug "Towing to wave is like paying for sex" -Dan Ladd 2005-10-05 12:49 AM Delete Edit
gmateu "Without Education, future is in danger" Jaim Etcheverry 2005-10-11 7:26 PM Delete Edit
fmischler Before criticizing, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize, you will be a mile away and you will have their shoes. 2005-10-13 11:31 AM Delete Edit
fmischler A Closed Mouth Gathers No Feet 2005-10-13 5:48 PM Delete Edit
jeepnray "You've never been lost until you've been lost doing Mach 3" (SR-71 community) 2005-11-01 7:08 PM Delete Edit
kalina "I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain." - Amy Johnson, 'Sky Roads of the World,' 1939 2005-11-12 5:46 AM Delete Edit
kalina "Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle." - Igor Sikorsky 2005-11-12 6:05 AM Delete Edit
kalina "My soul is in the sky." - William Shakespeare, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Scene I 2005-11-12 6:08 AM Delete Edit
1-26captain The sky is not the limit!!, Its our Home!! 2005-11-15 8:11 PM Delete Edit
LS6Z1 "Money may buy u a turbo, but it can't buy u balls" 2005-11-21 5:03 PM Delete Edit
mp4524 "No matter where you are or what kind of weather your in, there is blue sky less than 10 miles away...straight up". {unknown} 2006-01-14 9:18 PM Delete Edit
Mutley and he said unto them "The meek shall inherit the earth"........"The brave get the skys!!!!" 2006-01-17 9:49 AM Delete Edit
Mutley That's not flying........ that's just falling with style. Sheriff Woody in Toy Story 2006-01-18 4:48 AM Delete Edit
buccijj :That's why they call it gliding rather than circling" Terry Delore, emphasising the bad habits flatlanders have when flying in the mountains 2006-01-28 4:30 PM Delete Edit
billliscomb "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein 2006-02-17 9:57 AM Delete Edit
MaD Gliders are very similar to women - both in the beauty of their shapes and the running costs 2006-03-02 4:21 AM Delete Edit
gliderstud Sailplane Racers do it for the Girls and the Prize Money. 2006-03-03 10:34 PM Delete Edit
gliderstud Mom I'm about 100miles north, will you send a tow-plane to pick me up? 2006-03-04 2:31 AM Delete Edit
cliffhilty "You can't fix stupid!" Mary Leavitt 2006-03-15 9:13 AM Delete Edit
kslappy "I don't make mistakes, I conduct experiments"-Kurt P. 2006-03-29 2:33 PM Delete Edit
gmateu Nose down, speed up! I need to cover more ground 2006-04-06 8:04 PM Delete Edit
Openclass Never take your dog to a funeral. There is nothing good that can come from that. - Mark Twain 2006-05-06 6:13 PM Delete Edit
Tellurico The difference between a man and a boy is the price of his toy 2006-05-22 9:37 AM Delete Edit
L33 "Why is the rum always gone?" Capt Jack Sparrow 2006-07-15 6:15 PM Delete Edit
Paul Buch " Bugger! My plastic bag has a hole in it! " 2006-07-19 10:06 PM Delete Edit
Paul Buch Last thing you want to hear from the Captain. " Hey! Watch this!! " 2006-07-19 10:07 PM Delete Edit
Paul Buch Tower. " Flight 123. What are your intentions ? " Pilot " I'mm gawing ta visit ma Momma!! " 2006-07-19 10:10 PM Delete Edit
k6kid Glider pilots do it quietly ;) 2006-11-08 11:48 AM Delete Edit
k6kid glider pilots need help to get it up.. then stay up for hours 2006-11-08 11:48 AM Delete Edit
Max Payload The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine. Plato. 2006-11-15 5:07 AM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR LearJet 'XYZ' on long final to Glider 'GM' on short final: 'Is this going to be a full stop landing?' 2007-02-02 11:14 PM Delete Edit
verhulst passenger "where's the flight director?" glider pilot "behind my eyes" 2007-02-09 1:16 PM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR Glider is announcing winch launch on parallel grass strip and begins the climb. TwinComanche announces taking the same active, then sees glider and holds on rwy. saying: 'we'll hold to give the glider a minute to climb out!'. Glider responds with 'you may want to hold until the cable is on the ground'. TwinComanche: 'What cable??' 2007-02-17 9:58 PM Delete Edit
kslappy If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make 'em out of meat? 2007-05-07 4:43 PM Delete Edit
verhulst "Any landing you can walk away from is a good one'? Phooey! My standards are MUCH higher 2007-07-02 11:21 AM Delete Edit
golfkilokilo If Freddie Mercury was a glider pilot.."Flat bottom clouds make the gliding world go around" 2007-07-13 6:03 PM Delete Edit
clayjthom “Your parachute is guaranteed for life. If it malfunctions bring it back and I’ll replace it with a new one.” 2008-03-02 1:30 PM Delete Edit
youp If woman should fly the sky would be pink instead of blue 2009-03-17 2:54 AM Delete Edit
youp If it aint broken, do not fix it 2009-03-17 2:56 AM Delete Edit
eventmobil The pilot is always the first to arrive at the crash site. 2009-06-27 12:20 PM Delete Edit
eventmobil 'I'm so sorry, Dave' (Last words on voice recorder of Flight Eastern 401, a second before the impact sound) 2009-06-27 12:25 PM Delete Edit

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