“Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.” Pappy Boyington
“Isn’t it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!” Orville Wright
“Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.” Eddie Rickenbacker
High Flight
John Gillespie Magee, Jr
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of –Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
“The shell must break before the bird can fly”…- Tennyson
“Just think of happy thoughts and you’ll fly.” – Peter Pan
