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May I be at peace. May I awaken to the light of my own true nature. May I be healed and may I be the source of healing for others.

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Ernest K. Gann

MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!

Airplane, Cylinders, Dive, Funny, Stall, Understand
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Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental law of man. Aloft, at least for a little while, the needs disappear. Likewise the striving. In the thoughts of man aloft, food and evil become mixed and sometimes reversed. This is the open door to wisdom. Aloft, the earth is ancient and man is young, regardless of his numbers, for there, aloft he may reaffirm his suspicions that he may not be so very much. This is the gateway to humility.

Humility, Men, Needs, Numbers, Suspicions

There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and muscles frequently originate movements which suggest flight; and then there are pilots who regardless of their airborne time remain earth-loving bipeds forever. When these latter unfortunates, because of one urge or another, actually make an ascension, they neither anticipate nor relish the event and they drive their machines with the same graceless labor they inflict upon the family vehicle.

Views, Forever, Bird, Anticipate, Aloft, Drive

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

Clear, Embellishments, Islands, Life And Death, Thinking, Victims

Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

Aviation, Business, Jobs, Play, Things

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

Book, Paper, Stones, Metal, Rule
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