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• I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.
• MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that…
• If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are…
• He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if…
• The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they…
• Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.
• There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature…
• Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
• There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a…
• Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not…
• And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected…
• Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

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