“The appeal of a physically perilous sport … isn’t the inherent danger of it. It’s about the process of managing risk and anticipating challenges. You need to figure out how to prepare and control everything you can, and then you need to be ready for the things you can’t control.” Ashley Merryman, co-author of ‘Top Dog: The Science of Winning …
Category: Airmanship Quotes
NASA Science Pilot Tries Something Every Flight
“I have not flown a flight in my whole career where I didn’t at least try to learn something. You have to in this industry. There’s too much on the line.” ~ Stuart Broce, former USN F-14 pilot, now NASA ER-2 science pilot. Click on the picture to see some cool video from Flying magazine of him flying the civilian …
Emerson on Flying Above Time
Flying is above roads and rivers, but to go higher we make it above time. Quote is from Emerson’s 1841 essay Self-Reliance.
Paulo Coelho on Mistakes
Publilius Syrus, Maxim 891, Circa 1St Century BC
New Book on Mastering Habits
The crucial thing about habits is the lack of decision-making. Making decisions is draining. Habits free you from using self-control or willpower. ~ Gretchen Rubin
The Tao of Landing?
Who know the Tao Te Ching, written around the 6th century BC by the Chinese sage Lao Tsu, contained such good landing advice? (Chapter four, Gia-Fu Feng translation) The Tao is an empty vessel; it is used, but never filled. Oh, unfathomable source of ten thousand things! Blunt the sharpness, Untangle the knot, Soften the glare, Merge with dust. Oh, …
Don’t Crawl. Fly.
Allan Lokos on What We Control
Allan Lokos is the founder and guiding teacher of the community Meditation Center in New York City, and author of several books on peaceful living. On Christmas day, 2012, Lokos and his wife were in a fiery plane crash in Burma. Many doctors told him he would not survive his injuries. Yet he did. And continued to thrive. That journey …
Will Smith on the Perpetual Pursuit
I’m never going to be a good enough father. I’m never going to be a good enough husband. I’m never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed …