Best Sayings !!!
 

The other day, a guy known as SkyMutt gave me these. I thought they were great, and figured there must be a lot more out there.....

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.
Leonardo Di Vinci

Instrument flying is an unnatural act, probably punishable by God!
Gordon Baxter

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything!
Otto Lilienthal

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Of course then there are the less heady....

Helicopter's don't fly, they simply beat the air into submission

Or, Helicopter's don't fly, they're simply so ugly, the earth repels them,

Or, He's so out of it, he thinks the 1553 bus comes at 7 minutes to 4 (for avionics types:8 , and hence the signature.)


I always wanted to know the exact quote from that Navy guy in the forty's who said something to the effect that helicopters were an interesting curiosity, but would never have any practical use.

Bring-em on, heady or not! :ok:

f**k, i've never seen that happen before.

"just keep an eye on it"

I think Mr. Sikorsky came out with the best line about helicopters back in 1947, when asked of what use are helicopters.

"If you are in trouble anywhere in the world,
an airplane can fly over and drop flowers,
but a helicopter can land and save your life"

Cheers

Overheard in an engineering crewroom..

"you can teach a chimp to ride a bike, ever seen one fix a punture"??


And upon the departure of a (Disgruntled) female pilot..

"She had a face like a bag of smashed crabs"

For Gun Pilots everywhere:

If you are in a fair fight, you didn't plan it properly.

When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten.
- Robert Livingston, 'Flying The Aeronca

Flying is easy !!
Just throw yourself at the ground-- And MISS .....
:ok:

And the most frightening words of all:

"Watch this!"

Pilot leaving the crewroom to go to the toilet says,"I'm just going to give birth to a crewman". Crewman sitting in the crewroom yells after him, "Don't forget to wipe your pilot".:p

Heard these on another forum

A navy pilot saying, "If you flare to land you squat to pee" (sorry ladies)

"Helicopter pilots get it up quicker and go down more often"

"If it floats, flies, or f##ks, its cheaper to rent than to own"

If you have an engine failure at night, "turn your landing light on at 500' AGL, if you dont like what you see turn it off"

Crusty old pilot doing an IRT is asked a series of questions by the chicken trainer. One answer is clearly wrong and the chicken trainer points this out. The crusty old pilot replies that his answer was right, it's just that he had been asked the wrong question.

Some people are never wrong are they Nigel! :E

Thanks Sev, I needed that.:{ :8

Learning HOW to fly takes around 45 hours. Learning WHEN to fly takes a lifetime.

A helicopter in flight is "10,000 parts flying in close formation."

:ok:

The rest of the story....

Yes, a helicopter is 10,000 parts flying in close formation...Additionally...

Rotary Wing aerodynamics confirms that these parts are constantly in an enviornment that encourages them to separate from each other

Finally, in military machines, each of those 10,000 parts were purchased from the guy who made it for the cheapest price

Nigel,
you know you are the only b@stard that could get away with it, and you did!!!!!:ok:

You also know that you taught me more about the S76 than anyone else.;)

...We soon saw that the helicopter had no future, and dropped it. The helicopter does with great labor only what the balloon does without labor, and is no more fitted than the balloon for rapid horizontal flight. If its engine stops, it must fall with deathly violence, for it can neither glide like the aeroplane, nor float like the balloon. The helicopter is much easier to design than the aeroplane, but is worthless when done...

Famous quote from an otherwise knowledgeable aeronautical engineer...

To: Tmflyer

What makes you think it is any different for civil aircraft to include helicopters?

:E

They could teach a monkey to do this job, but the monkey wouldnt keep comming back.


rb

Here's a couple for you:


"If women were meant to fly, the sky would be pink not blue."
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"Helicopters: 10,0000 bits of metal fatigue rotating around an oil leak."
:ooh:


And to finish off, a little exchange in the cockpit after the C.P.'s ADI had fallen over on taxi:

Captain: "....it says in here (in the M.E.L.), 'approved for single pilot VFR ops',... your gunna have to get out"

Unfortunately he was very serious.
:sad: