Sunday, August 2, 2009

Quote from The Manual

"If the enemy is in range, so are you."
Infantry Journal
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"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."
U.S. Air Force Manual
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"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
- General MacArthur
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"You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me."
- U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt.
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"Five second fuses only last three seconds."
- Infantry Journal
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"If you see a bomb technician running, keep up with him."
USAF - Ammo Troop
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"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3."
- Paul F. Crickmore ( test pilot )
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A Navigator's Definition of Latitude & Longitude:Latitude is Where We are Lost, &Longitude is How Long We've been Lost There!
USAF Navi-guesser - Woo Hoo
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When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash."
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"What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies;
If ATC screws up, .... The pilot dies."
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The three most common expressions (or famous last words), in aviation are:
"Why is it doing that?"
"Where are we?"
And "Oh Shit!"

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" Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two out of three are needed to successfully complete the flight."
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"Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; We never left one up there!"
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"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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"The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you."
- Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)
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