“It occurred to me that many pilots who died trying to scud run have been buried a few days later on a bright, sunny day.”

"Takeoffs are optional. Landings are mandatory."

Earl Smith

You start out with a full bag of luck

and an empty bag of experience.

The objective is to fill your bag of experience

before you empty your bag of luck.

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings ..."

John Gillespie Magee, "High Flight"

"Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - "

John Gillespie Magee, "High Flight"

Seniority is Everything

If you can find a way to get paid for doing what you love,

you will never have to work a day in your life.