ADVICE FOR AVIATORS

"Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder pedals." -- Harry Bill

"Keep thy airspeed up, lest the earth come from below and smite thee." -- William Kershner

"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 WWII

"Instrument flying is when your mind gets a grip on the fact that there is vision beyond sight." -- U.S. Navy "Approach" magazine circa WWII

"Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket." -- Bevo Howard

"The Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you." -- Attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot

"A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum." -- Jon McBride, astronaut

"If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible." -- Bob Hoover

"It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors." -- Richard Leakey, after engine failure in a single engine, Nairobi, Africa, 1993.

"If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it. Ride the bastard down." -- Ernest K. Gann, advice from the "Old Pelican"

"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 operating location on Kadena AB, Okinawa

"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." -- Paul F. Crickmore

"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"

"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

"Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you." -- Richard Herman Jr, in "Firebreak"

"There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime." -- Sign over Squadron Ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970.

"An airplane might disappoint a pilot, but it'll never surprise a good one." -- Len Morgan

"To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home." -Jerry Crawford

"The sky is not the limit.............THE GROUND IS"

SPECIAL THANKS TO JERRY CRAWFORD FOR CONTRIBUTING THIS PAGE.