GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Norman Mailer

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The love of flying demands the attention of a lover to the moods of weather.

Norman Mailer

Of a Fire on the Moon, 1970. In the UK the book was titled A Fire on the Moon, the title of the original 1969/1970 serialised Life magazine accounts, the longest non-fiction piece Life ever published.

Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

Norman Mailer

Of a Fire on the Moon, 1971.

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