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"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."
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"And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane."
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"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
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"When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying."
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"Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed."
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"A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle."
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"The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying."
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"Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter."
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"In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school."
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"I'm afraid of flying."
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"I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists."
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"We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation."
Politics
"Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia."
War
"Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning."
Time
"Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II."
War
"This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about."
Change
"The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful."
Being
"It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance."
Balance
"And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights."
Military
"I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production."
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"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."
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