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“Dad, I left my heart up there.” - Francis Gary Powers, CIA U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union, describing his first flight at age 14. In his 1970 book Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident.
“By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste; he's a god of the earth, like one of the Grecian deities who lives on worldly mountains and descended for intercourse with men. But at night, over a stratus layer, all sense of the planet may disappear. You know that down below, beneath that heavenly blanket is the earth, factual and hard. But it's an intellectual knowledge; it's a knowledge tucked away in the mind; not a feeling that penetrates the body. And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.” - Charles A. Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis, 1953.
“I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.”
Amelia Earhart
“The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.”
Walter Raleigh
"It is a huge thrill. You’re up there on your own, and you really feel like this is life. I’m the king of the castle up here. That's really what it's like." — Eric 'Winkle' Brown, British Navy Fleet Air Arm test pilot and war hero. BBC Interview 23 April 2013
“I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.”
General Chuck Yeager
“Same with anyone who’s been flying for years and loves it still… we’re part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we’re one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!”
Richard Bach
