Aviation quotes anyone?

I can resist no longer – but I’m not sure it’s a quote but hey – “Will it be at L****ds? :diablo:

Anyone utters the words Spitfire, graceful, sleek, or stylish, will be sacked by order S CAMM esq.

noy a saying as such…but overheard on radio at ‘Wet Through’ (west freugh) …

”you were meant to be firing at target 4 ” :D:diablo:

R J Mitchell: “If anybody ever tells you anything about an aeroplane which is so bloody complicated you can’t understand it, take it from me: it’s all balls”

“Those undercarriage legs are longer than I thought” after I made some comment to the pilot about a rather heavy landing.

Graham, sorry if this thread has been semi-hijacked – but it was worth it!!
Resmoroh

Hey… I dont mind if we all either learn something, are entertained – or preferably both!

This:

Do not spin this aircraft. If the aircraft does enter a spin it will return to earth without further attention on the part of the aeronaut.

And this:

Rule books are paper – they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.

Don

bazv, Brilliant!
There should be more like him. But I suspect that all the nausea of the modern world (Elf & Safety, etc, etc) has stopped all that sort of thing. Reading that Obit made my afternoon!! Worth a guinea a minute!!
Graham, sorry if this thread has been semi-hijacked – but it was worth it!!
Resmoroh

Does anyone know what Ruffell Smith (who had more medical post-nominals than most of us have had hot dinners!) got his AFC for? The good Wg Cdr also got his “Brass Hat”. Sounds like quite a character!!! Want to know more!!
Resmoroh

He was awarded the AFC and 2 bars
obituary…

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCAQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC1713930%2Fpdf%2Fbrmedj00036-0049.pdf&rct=j&q=group+captain+pat+ruffell+smith+afc&ei=vyIeTMKEKILw0gSx39imDQ&usg=AFQjCNEgaLtPOx0h4PCIqHsvvCiSjDwK4g

Re Pat Ruffell Smith
In his autobio ‘Hippocrates RN’, Herbert Ellis (who was a naval doctor/pilot) describes some unnofficial deck landing training for Wing Cmdr Pat Ruffel Smith RAF (also based at Farnborough) in Meteor T7 WA619 ?,here is a pic of this pair doing ‘touch and goes’ on HMS Ark Royal.
R S may have been the oldest pilot (44) to do a deck landing
for the first time,when at a later date he flew Farnborough’s sea hawk on a carrier trial.
The ‘Arks’ capt was Denis (angled deck) Campbell… the pair did 6/7 ‘touch and goes’ in the meteor and Ellis was exploiting a loophole in Admiralty Fleet Orders which said that nobody could deck land an a/c unless they had completed a deck landing course,or had already done a deck landing 🙂
Ruffell smith later flew a sea hawk from HMS Bulwark 3/4 times to ‘further his deck landing experience’ 🙂

photo courtesy DH James

Re Post #2

Does anyone know what Ruffell Smith (who had more medical post-nominals than most of us have had hot dinners!) got his AFC for? The good Wg Cdr also got his “Brass Hat”. Sounds like quite a character!!! Want to know more!!
Resmoroh

“What the . . . . . . . . “

Flying a plane is easy. If it were dificult, ground crew would be made to do it!

http://www.gashbag.com/fokkers.htm

click the links down the left hand side, some crackers there!

It’s much better to be on the ground wishing you were up there, than being up there wishing you were on the ground.:D

Amen to that brother…remembering pedalling around in zero sink at (ahem) 400′ in my glider a few times – 100 km from home in the middle of nowhere at 4 o’clock on sunday afternoon and thinking ‘WTF am I doing here ?’ :D:rolleyes:

BTW …most times i did get home !!

Roger Roger, we have clearance Clarence…

Whats our vector Victor?

…you can teach monkeys to fly better than that…….

……Spring chicken th sh@te hawk in 30 minutes……..

It’s much better to be on the ground wishing you were up there, than being up there wishing you were on the ground.:D

‘You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost at Mach 3.’
-Paul F. Crickmore (SR71 test pilot)

Man is not as good as a black box for certain specific things however he is more flexible and reliable. He is easily maintained and can be manufactured by relatively unskilled labour.

— Wing Commander H. P. Ruffell Smith, RAF, 1949

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