Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death. I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing! (Sign over the entrance to the SR-71 base in Kadena, Japan).
You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. (Paul F. Crickmore -test pilot)
When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power leftto get you to the scene of the crash.
Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club.
Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!
Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground who is incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.
The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.(Attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot)
If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.(Bob Hoover - renowned aerobatic and test pilot).
If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it; ride it down. (Ernest K. Gann, author & aviator)
Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you.
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