GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Dick Rutan

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I have flown everything from a 65hp Piper J-3 Cub to all the USAF Century Series fighters. But there is still something about being in the back seat of a yellow J-3 Cub with the door open on a glass smooth early morning just after sunrise with the slipstream hitting you in the face and Mother Earth slowly — I mean slowly — passing a couple of hundred feet below.

Dick Rutan

Voyager world flight pilot, quoted in the 2013 book The Little Book of Aviation.

A free ride and free food are two of the three things no pilot ever turns down.

Attributed to Dick Rutan

Edwards Tower, this is Voyager One. we’re ready to go.

Roger, Voyager One. you’re cleared for takeoff. ATC clears Voyager One from Edwards Air Force Base to Edwards Air Force Base via flight plan route. Maintain 8,000. Godspeed.

Dick Rutan and ATC.

Takeoff for the first around the world non-stop and non-refueled, 14 December 1986. They landed back in California nine days later.

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.

Dick Rutan

Regards engine failure over the Pacific during the record round-the-world flight, Newsweek magazine, 5 January 1987.

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