<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="576" style="width: 6in; margin-left: 39.75pt"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in"> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Both optimists and pessimists contribute tosociety. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist, the parachute.</span><span style="color: navy">````</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div></div> </div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">If helicopters are so safe, how come there are no vintage helicopter fly-ins?</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Death is just nature's way of telling you to watch your airspeed.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div></div> </div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Real planes use only a single stick to fly. This is why bulldozers & helicopters in that order need two.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div></div> </div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">There are only three things the copilot should ever say:
1. Nice landing, Sir.
2. I'll buy the first round.
3. I'll take the fat one.
As a pilot only two bad things can happen to you and one of them will.
a. One day you will walk out to the aircraft knowing that it is your</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">last flight.
b. One day you will walk out to the aircraft not knowing that it is</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">your last flight.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">There are Rules and there are Laws.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt"></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">The Rules are made by men who think that they know better how to fly your airplane than you.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Laws (of Physics) were ordained by nature.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">You can, and sometimes should, suspend the Rules but you can never suspend the Laws.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">About Rules:
a. The rules are a good place to hide if you don't have a better idea</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">and the talent to execute it.
b. If you deviate from a rule, it must be a flawless performance..</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt"> (e.g.., If you fly under a bridge, don't hit the bridge.)</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">The ideal pilot is the perfect blend of discipline and aggressiveness.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">The medical profession is the natural enemy of the aviation profession..</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Ever notice that the only experts who decree that the age of the pilot is over are people who have never flown anything? Also, in spite of the intensity of their feelings that the pilot's day is over I know of no expert who has volunteered to be a passenger in a non-piloted aircraft.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Before each flight, make sure that your bladder is empty and your</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">fuel tanks are full!</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">He who demands everything that his aircraft can give him is a pilot;</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">he that demands one iota more is a fool.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">There are certain aircraft sounds that can only be heard at night.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">The aircraft limits are only there in case there is another flight by that particular aircraft. If subsequent flights do not appear likely, there are no limits.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Flying is a great way of life for men who want to feel like boys, but not for those who still are.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Flying is a hard way to earn an easy living.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">"If theWright brotherswere alive today, Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs." President,DELTA Airlines.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">In theAlaskabush I'd rather have a two hour bladder and three hours of gas than vice versa.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div></div> </div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">It's not that all airplane pilots are good-looking. Just that good-looking people seem more capable of flying airplanes.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div></div> </div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">An old pilot is one who can remember when flying was dangerous and sex was safe.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Airlines have really changed, now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">I've flown in both pilot seats, can someone tell me why the other one is always occupied by an idiot?</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">Son, you're going to have to make up your mind about growing up and becoming a pilot. You can't do both.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">There are only two types of aircraft fighters and targets.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt">You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you're grateful.</span></div> </div> <div> <div> <div></div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt">
</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt">Experience is something you don't get until justafter you need it.</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table><div><div><font size="2"></font></div></div>