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Might make this a sticky


Mine is my Signature


[font=verdana]Fly The Airplane As Far Into The Crash As Possible. - Bob Hoover[/font]

'' Unable to control altitude.Unable to control airspeed.Unable to control heading.
Other then that everything is A OK"

Captain Kallita  Air flight 66

Mine is my profile signature below

Some background:
When Bud Anderson ( Yeagers best friend) was interviewed about Chuck , the interviewer asked .
" Hey Bud is Chuck Yeager the best pilot you've ever seen ? "

Buds reply ;  " Yup, Except when I'm shaving "

LOL  ....Love that line

I didn't know that story behind that haha thanks!

A cheesy one:
[quote]
“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 [/quote]

Not sure about the historical accuracy, but hey, it sounds nice.

you know we fact check everything here at Scudrunners.com eh!  ;D

"The whole nine yards"


Everybody knows what it means, almost nobody knows what it literally means.

P-51 gun belt, of course!

Not my favorite airplane, truthfully.  Needed work.
Servo trim tabs on the ailerons, for starters.  And
different wingtips - you pull G, you lose horrendous
airspeed.  Truly wretched induced drag.

But then again, I don't know very much about aviation.

"This will work out alright in the end.
If it's not alright, this isn't the end."

I'm having trouble verifying this but..

Orville Wright,  "What? How about 3 out of 5?"