"Fighting in the air is not a sport.…" — Eddie Rickenbacker
"Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder."
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Eddie Rickenbacker
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36 Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker
Eddie Rickenbacker has 36 quotes on this site.
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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…
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In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
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Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of…
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If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old…
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I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit…
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And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who…
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The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot…
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get…
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I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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