Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

quote by Alan Shepard
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Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

quote by Al Gore
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The Hogarth Experiment Part 7

The first streaks for dawn
broke across the Wye Valley.
The Armoured Flamethrowers were poised
around the giant wasps nest.
Just as the sky began to lighten,
pushing away the darkness of the night
the first wasp climbed from the nest.
Long spouts of flame poured over it.
As its body was engulfed in flame
out of the nest, more wasps swarmed.
Suddenly the sky darkened again.
Several RAF bases were scrambled.
Spitfires and Hurricanes crowded the skies.
This time the enemy
was not the Luftwaffe, but insects.
The pilots where not sure what tactics
they were to use
or how the insects were going to react.
They swooped low down the valley
just skimming the treetops.

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poem by David Harris
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drone strike debate...
a girl declares 'Peace is the Way'
in sign language

haiku by Chenou Liu
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I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

quote by Jack Vance
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Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

quote by Adolf Galland
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Tippity Tap

Tap Tap, Click Click

On the train

Leeds To London

Click Click go the mice

Strange Tunes from phones

Is there no time

To kick back

To take time

To enjoy the ride

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poem by Jason Palmer
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A War Story

There’s a story that have being told
(and I do not know if there is truth to it) ,
that after the slaughtering
of the 47th FAPLA / Cuban brigade at the intersection
of the Lomba and Cuzizi Rivers in Angola,

the mauling of several brigades on the way
to Cuito Cuanavale and the destruction
of that military airfield, the loss of many soldiers,
the destruction of nine Mig fighters
and the loss of huge amounts of Soviet equipment

Fidel Castro was very angry and in a terrible rage
brought his Cuban soldiers in Angola
up to fifty thousand, sent four hundred tanks
and his best pilots to Angola,
after the South African forces had withdrawn

which resulted in the Mig-23 attack
on the Calueque dam

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poem by Gert Strydom
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The Cassinga jump

Fear and tension was written over the faces
of paratroopers next to,
in front and at the back of me
when the red light
began to flash in the Hercules
and we went to action stations
still skimming barely over the tops
of taller trees at about two hundred feet
and most of us had two weeks earlier
been home at our civilian jobs.

One paratrooper vomited
right over me in yellow stinking
half fermented food
and the retching smell
made me nauseas as well
while the aircraft pitched steeply
with its last-minute manoeuvres
coming to jumping height
of eight hundred feet.

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poem by Gert Strydom
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Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

quote by Dean Acheson
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Winter's distant drums
greet time with fleet beat farewell
as aged drone hums

haiku by Jonathan Robin (25 June 2008)
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While the distant drums
beat time with a fleet farewell,
an aged drone hums.

haiku by Jonathan Robin (13 January 1993)
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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

quote by John L. Phillips
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prices are soaring high
jobs become scanty day by day
helicopter visits
investigative reports
records pile up for history

tanka by Rajkumar Mukherjee (13 September 2009)
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I Shall Weep Tears For Them

when your son
or daughter
lines up to enlist

join the military
to fight in foreign
wars America’s

Muslim Wars
in target countries
I will not judge

all suffering death pain
inflicted on sovereign
soil democracy invades

when their sons daughters
are killed as wars drone on
I shall weep tears for them

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

quote by Morley Safer
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Barker Of The Ufo

Barker sing me a song
Instead of counting trees,
Collecting aeroplane numbers now, mr barker
Live it up, shine my shoes
Fly me to the moon ,
Never before have I seen the light, mr barker
Then the moment of depression fell around , mr barker
And the changes of expression to a frown, my friend barker
There must be something there
Shiner of the light, we demand we are here, mr barker
Then the moment of depression fell around , mr barker
And the changes of expression to a frown ,my friend barker
There must be something there
Shiner of the light , we demand we are here , mr barker
Barker sing me a song
Instead of counting trees,
Collecting aeroplane numbers now, mr barker
Live it up, shine my shoes
Fly me to the moon ,
Never before have I seen the light

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song performed by Bee Gees
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

quote by Otto Lilienthal
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I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

quote by Charles Lindbergh
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I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

quote by Charles Lindbergh
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