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  1. 12-Nov-2003, 11:37 AM #1
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    "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 da Vinci

    "Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from level with engine power alone average speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 seconds inform press home Christmas.
    --Orville Wright

    The course of flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine
    --Orville Wright

    A mile of road will take you a mile, but a mile of runway will take you anywhere
    --anonymous

    "What's that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?"
    --Gary Larson, Farside

    Everything is accomplished through teamwork unitl something goes wrong, then it's maintenance.
    --anonymous mechanic

    If the Wright brothers were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.
    --Herb Kelleher, Southwest- June 1994

    Deregulation will be the greatest thing to happen to the airlines since the jet engine.
    --Richard Ferris, CEO United Airlines, 1976

    Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of the air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world."
    --Welch Pogue[/list]

    Paper squadron--for fun try flying a paper airplane paper airplane flight
    BTW, my first flight was 47 ft.
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  • 23-Nov-2003, 08:45 PM #2
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    Great quotes. That is an excellent link, had to send it to several co-workers.
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  • 24-Nov-2003, 09:37 AM #3
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    Major Tip--You can change the settings in flight; that bit of information prevented me from setting the backward flight record.

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  • 25-Nov-2003, 08:46 PM #4
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    Woohoo! 73 feet after it looped. That was too kewl!

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  • 14-Mar-2004, 11:15 AM #5
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    The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.
    --St Augustine

    A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.
    --Carl Burns

    Never take a cross country trip with a kid who has just learned to whistle.
    --Jean Deuel

    "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
    --Captain Eric Moody, British Airways, passenger PA after flying through volcanic ash in a B-747

    "If you don't hit anything, then it's a good push"
    --ramper, while doing a push our at LAX-gate 3A

    "You sure look different in your clothes"
    --gate agent after suddenly realizing the well-dressed passenger she just checked through, is a mechanic she sees every day.

    "It's never too dark to look cool."
    --answer given by pilot when asked why he was wearing sunglasses while strolling through LAX parking lot at midnight. [/list]

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    Be Warned - only open the attachment if you are not offended by one little four letter word.
    Was handed in on a Qantas (QF/QFA) flight.
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    The Wright Brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
    --Dorothea Brande, writer

    The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people of differing languages, ideas and values together.
    --Bill Gates, CEO, Microsoft Corporation, 1998

    It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear.
    --Douglas Adams, writer

    The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.
    --Anthony Price

    I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself.
    --Dennis Potter

    Terminals have always been, and probably always will be the 'bottlenecks' of transportation, whether of ground, water, or air systems.
    --Harry H. Blee, US Aeronautics Branch, 1932

    Heathrow has been described as the only building site to have its own airport.
    --Anon[/list]
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    What does this button do?

    This doesn't taste right.

    I've seen this done of TV.

    I'm sure this isn't the poisonous kind.

    Hey, what's that beeping sound?

    Well, it can't get any worse.

    Na, I don't think we need to go to the hospital.

    Pull the pin and count to what?

    I dunno, press the button and find out.

    Hey, what's this switch?

    No, no, no, let me fix it.[/list]



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