“He was going to work on it until he got it. Maybe never, but he would know as he got near it. It was a job. Maybe for all his life.” Ernest Hemingway I’m going to keep working on flying. It is work. It is a job. I may never really get it right. But I do enjoy it so. …
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Changing Not the World
This is what great pilots share with artists, and monks and mystics. The heightened perception, the fascination with flight, eventually turns into an aeronautical superpower. The great pilot sees things and corrects before the average pilot ever knows anything is amiss. The desire of monks and mystics is not unlike that of artists: to perceive the extraordinary within the ordinary …