Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:45 pm
Owners Manual for the J3C-65 wrote:10. THOU SHALT KNOW ALWAYS–THE GOOD PILOT IS THE SAFE PILOT: It's better to be an old pilot than a bold pilot.
Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:35 pm
Wed Sep 25, 2019 5:58 pm
Sat Oct 05, 2019 2:30 pm
Sat May 09, 2020 6:57 pm
Randy Haskin wrote:Perhaps you guys might like to read this list of collected "Fighter Pilot Idioms".
Randy Haskin wrote:Go full retard
Sat May 09, 2020 7:18 pm
Sat May 09, 2020 8:24 pm
Sat May 09, 2020 8:26 pm
Noha307 wrote:Thanks! Did you make this list? Where did it come from?
Noha307 wrote:Randy Haskin wrote:Go full retard
This one is definitely not an aviation only quote and can be attributed to the movie Tropic Thunder.
Sun May 10, 2020 4:29 pm
Randy Haskin wrote:Just collected from all over the place. I flew in USAF fighter squadrons from 1999-2015, so things heard daily in briefings and conversations, including collected from Navy brethren.
Randy Haskin wrote:Not offered as an "aviation only" quote...simply as something heard often in military fighter talk.
Mon May 11, 2020 7:03 am
Noha307 wrote:they have been so repeated that no one knows where they came from anymore.
Mon May 11, 2020 7:25 am
Mon May 11, 2020 11:56 am
Ken wrote:Here's an ignorant question from a non-ACC-er ... what's with the elbow pointing and avoidance of "head" vs cranium, etc?
Mon May 11, 2020 3:12 pm
Mon May 11, 2020 3:18 pm
so I just started writing them down for posterity.
Sun Oct 17, 2021 11:41 pm
Wichita Eagle wrote:The secret may lie in a phrase of his let fall some years ago and since widely quoted, "I would rather be the oldest pilot than the most spectacular."