I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

quote by Charles Lindbergh
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Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.

quote by Manfred von Richthofen
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The Boys

Where are they?--the friends of my childhood enchanted--
The clear, laughing eyes looking back in my own,
And the warm, chubby fingers my palms have so wanted,
As when we raced over
Pink pastures of clover,
And mocked the quail's whir and the bumblebee's drone?

Have the breezes of time blown their blossomy faces
Forever adrift down the years that are flown?
Am I never to see them romp back to their places,
Where over the meadow,
In sunshine and shadow,
The meadow-larks trill, and the bumblebees drone?

Where are they? Ah! dim in the dust lies the clover;
The whippoorwill's call has a sorrowful tone,
And the dove's--I have wept at it over and over;--
I want the glad luster
Of youth, and the cluster
Of faces asleep where the bumblebees drone!

poem by James Whitcomb Riley
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A Gigantic Bee of A Thing

About two centimetres in size,
it drones near,
something that you can probably call a bee
with black wings spread in balancing,

it suddenly wants to attack me
and I want smack it, damning it away.
About two centimetres in size
it drones near,

wants to intervene in my life like a mad despot
with a attacking dive quite openly,
making that I want to call out a string of curses
eager to its attack, like a religious devout,
about two centimetres in size.

poem by Gert Strydom
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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

quote by Winston Churchill
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032910a Clouds Has Just Open For Me

it's raining outside my door
it's cold, it's windy and it pours
night still with me i could see
water start flowing from driveway
if this will continue much longer
i know the lake would get deeper

some would be wishing it stops
this month we really needed that
for grass growth so as flowers
blooming to the tune of lovers
i have golf umbrella in my car
good enough for walk, mile far

i will bring shirt and pants, in case
rain won't be please, pour sideways
road could be slippery, hydroplane
spray on your windshield a pain
inconsiderate people they just drive
unknowing what they are causing

poem by Manonton Dalan
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When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.

quote by Donald Wills Douglas
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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

quote by Jean Kerr
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Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

quote by Lawrence Hargrave
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Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Or it is “Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolf”?
Anyway, Palin and lip-stick coated pit bull persona is being attacked again,
From Ashley Judd, for Palin’s defense of aerial hunting of wolves.
Palin has encouraged hunting for wolves that she made a $150 bounty,
For each severed left paw,
What gall!
The hunters fly in airplanes or helicopters to bag their prey,
How daring!
With high powered rifles with scopes they shoot to kill,
I would have them much more on the ground, on foot, if dare I say.
Then I would consider that a hunt.
Not shooting fish in a fish barrel, a barrel with a bunch dead pickled herring.

(2-5-09)

poem by Joe Rosochacki
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Days

The days
Are flying
By, like the
Aeroplanes
In the sky…

I'm waving
At them,
Wishing
Them all
Goodbye!

Knowing
That -
The planes
Will make
Their
Return
Trips -
But the

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poem by Aparna Chatterjee
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

quote by Garth Brooks
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Imagine This

The large
remote controlled
nuclear drone
drops its atomic
payload
Persia is gone
Imagine that.

poem by Vince Gullaci
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Surface Gliders

Surface gliders,
Desire to prove...
They can get by with sliding,
With no depth to penetrate.
And to do this for the rest of their lives...
To defy an age that eventually materializes.

But outdate becomes their philosophies.
And obvious is a stunting done,
To a maturity that never comes.
For them life is lived to acquire adulation.
And as long as they get by with sliding,
A purpose achieved has been won.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Mimesis: Operation Highjump Defeated

Task Force 68 1946
largest expedition mounted
ever to the Antarctic

13 ships
included 4,700 men
multiple aircraft

USS Philippine Sea
Essex-class aircraft carrier
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd

USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8)
Mount McKinley-class
amphibious force command ship

USS Brownson (DD-868)
USS Henderson (DD-785)
Gearing-class destroyers

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.

quote by Jonathan Carroll
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The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

quote by Johnny Depp
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Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

Adolf Galland in Luftwaffe
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30,000 Eyes In The Sky

Drones now fly over U.S. Skies
Spy on everyone with 30,000 eyes
Woe to men who dare insurrection
For fury rains, after their detection

poem by Ray Lucero
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That Poor Sky

That poor sky is all alone today
Because there are no trace of birds, airplane, or sun
In that poor sky

poem by Aldo Kraas
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