Aeroplane Fighting Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker

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• There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to…
• In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
• Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
• I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
• Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so…
• If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive…
• I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.
• And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be…
• The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his…
• The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.…
• I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.

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