Never trade luck for skill.
Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.
Progress in airline flying: Now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant.
In aviation, gravity is a law not subject to repeal.
Airspeed, altitude or brains: Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.
A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication.
I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous.
Will Rogers never met a fighter pilot.
We have a perfect record in aviation: we never left one up there!
If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter - and unsafe.
Federal Aviation Regulations are written by lawyers to promote violations and lawsuits.
Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries.
Navy carrier pilots to Air Force pilots: Flaring is like squatting to pee.
Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding it.
An accident investigation attempts to place blame on the hapless for brief lapses.
To err is human; to forgive divine - neither of which is FAA policy.
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From somewhere near Parkville, Mo.
William Crane
aka Mr. Clean