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Title: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: Papa on January 16, 2013, 03:05:16 PM
If you have never posted before now is your chance to get started.

Post your favourite Aviation Saying and share it with us all.

Mike Hazelton gave me the idea but he has to come up with another one.

Post as many as you want.

I'll start it off:

A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication.

Jack.
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: gordonbw on January 16, 2013, 03:24:34 PM
"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

- Leonardo da Vinci

Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: piker on January 16, 2013, 03:31:29 PM
That's deep, Gordon   :)

I like John McNicol's saying about helicopters:

"Helicopters don't fly.  They're so damn ugly the ground repels them!"

Sorry heli guys  ;)
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: thehaze on January 16, 2013, 03:34:04 PM
If God had meant man to fly, he'd have given him lots more money.
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: Andy Hoffer on January 16, 2013, 06:06:30 PM
Quote from: thehaze on January 16, 2013, 03:34:04 PM
If God had meant man to fly, he'd have given him lots more money.

Mike wins, hands down!

As for the winter blues, Ice Pilots don't have them, except maybe on their finger tips!  :)

Andy
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: Frank v B on January 16, 2013, 06:56:18 PM
Came across two (no reference to originators):

"The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival".

"when in doubt, hold on to your altitude.  No-one has ever collided with the sky"

Frank van Beurden ;D
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: Frank v B on January 16, 2013, 08:21:47 PM
This one is priceless:

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings around Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage"  Mark Russell

Frank
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: eric on January 16, 2013, 09:02:39 PM
My old flying instructor (full size) used to say these 2 things all the time:

"There's nothing more useless than runway behind you and altitude above you" and, regarding marginal flying weather,  "Its better to be down here wishing you were up there than the other way around".

Eric
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: pmackenzie on January 16, 2013, 09:09:10 PM
Eric "stole" my first choice with his first one ;D

So how about "There are old pilots and there are bold pilot but there are no old, bold pilots"

Pat MacKenzie
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: Michael on January 16, 2013, 09:42:28 PM
"It doesn't matter how bad it looked, as long as the last 15 seconds of the flight are perfect!"

Michael Rogozinsky 2012











...  ;D
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: gordonbw on January 16, 2013, 10:08:44 PM
Basic Flying Rules: "Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there."
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: sihinch on January 16, 2013, 10:59:45 PM
"I feel the need ........ the need for speed!"

Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: Skyking on January 17, 2013, 08:57:16 AM

I was going to have a really good saying but my writers are on strike.

Ken
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: flying saucer on January 17, 2013, 11:20:26 AM
My favourite as of late "did the canopy come off? No the whole plane came off!"

There is an accompanying video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwJ5WiQmMFE&feature=youtube_gdata_player (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwJ5WiQmMFE&feature=youtube_gdata_player)
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: Gregor77 on January 18, 2013, 09:46:40 AM
"I got nothing!"
Title: Re: Dispel the winter Blues!
Post by: Ededge2002 on January 19, 2013, 08:11:46 AM
How has "watch this" not made the list yet lol