Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
As the years go by, he returns to this invisible world rather than to earth for peace and solace. There also he… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
“In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
As the years go by, he returns to this invisible world rather than to earth for peace and solace. There also he finds a… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
“Those ever more frequent nights when his loneliness became unbearable and he took solace in wine he would sometimes stand outside his tent holding… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
