Our flying journeys are always revealing new landscapes, outer and inner.
Category: Airmanship Quotes
Inner Game Article
“Players also pretend that it’s all about winning, but if that were true, why don’t you just play someone you know you can beat every time? What we really want is a challenge, and what tennis teaches us is how to overcome doubts and fears.” Tim Gallway Here’s a fantastic article on the original Inner Game of Tennis. Has cool …
“Just Keep Going.”
Ted wasn’t just the greatest hitter in the history of baseball, he was a Marine Corps fighter pilot who flew 39 combat missions during the Korean War. He lived the perpetual pursuit.
Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth might not be on the ground, so I’ll see you in the sky!
Poberezny on Perpetual Pursuit
Paul founded the Experimental Aircraft Association, and clearly he knew about the perpetual pursuit of piloting perfection!
Effortlessness and Yet Such Total Presence
“Rowing at its best occurs when you are gliding through the water with such effortlessness and yet such total presence that you almost seem to disappear. Rowers use the term ‘swing’ to refer to that magical kind of condition when the boat seems to fly over the water and a lot of effort disappears from the stroke. The athlete becomes …
Astronaut Chris Hadfield on Negative Thinking
“Self-help gurus are always advising us to think positively and envisage success, but it’s about as helpful as thinking about cupcakes. Just thinking about them isn’t going to help. It’s more important to think what could go wrong with a mission. Visualize failings, not success. That’s what’s essential to survival as an astronaut. I was an astronaut for 21 years, but I …
Success and Excellence. Having and Being.
Super Bowl winning NFL football coach ‘Iron’ Mike Ditka getting philosophical on having vs. being. Given the choice of only one: would you want to own a B747 – or fly one?
Automation and the FAA/NTSB
I’m going to let the dust settle before addressing this issue fully. But right now the Washington Post has a great article on the FAA/NTSB automation debate. And the full FAA IG report is online here. “We’ve recommended that pilots have more opportunity to practice manually flying the aircraft.” Robert L. Sumwalt, who spent 32 years as an airline pilot …
Do What You Love
How much longer am I going to do this? I don’t know. I love it, you see. Anthony Bourdain, Chef.Writing about 27 years of cooking professionally, in his book Kitchen Confidential. He wrote that in 2000. If you want to be good, you have to love the doing.