Favorite quotes, etc.

If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds; but if you really wish to learn, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial.
Wilbur Wright, 1901

There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots.
W. W. Windstaff

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
Chuck Yeager

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

A pilot lives in a world of perfection, or not at all.
Richard S. Drury

Though it was a place where I could quickly die, the cockpit was a place where I truly lived.
Brian Shul

Great pilots are made, not born. A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience.
Air Vice-Marshal J.E. 'Johnnie' Johnson, RAF