I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

quote by Jean Kerr
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Chasm

On the edge I stand
Constructing paper airplanes
Crisp clean fresh sheets
Free of any dark remark
Regrets, recriminations
Would only weigh them down

Hope the force that lifts
Fate determines course
Urged by gentle thoughts
Love or luck sees them across

Dove gray morning moments
Whispering pink dawns
Busy blue-sky days
Shouting orange sunsets
My thoughts sail out toward you

Whether under full faced Moon
Or tiny silver slivered smile

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poem by Mary Havran
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I realized that if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Charles Lindbergh in interview (1974)
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It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

quote by Adolf Galland
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Three figures of Beethoven

Hawks could teach bullets a thing or two —
see one precisely repeating
the terrified unpredictable zigzags
of a mountain pipit.

And gulls and aeroplanes — can a plane
turn over and backwards and
slam stunningly into the sea — to re-emerge
with a ruffle and begin unwinding
the same long spool of flight?

These are swift and beautiful. But watch
for the gull, the slow flier, the airy loiterer
that can pause, dead still,
curved on the air
like a hand on a breast.

poem by Norman MacCaig
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This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.

quote by Niki Lauda
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Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

quote by Deng Xiaoping
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High speed helicopters

All the girls like a chopper ride
they like to ride with pride
at speeds that quite defy death
and leave them slightly out of breath

poem by Michael Emine
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I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.

quote by Treat Williams
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Silvery Rain

(hank marvin)
Butterflies danced on invisible strings
Showing wings they borrowed from a rainbow
And a blackbird on high sang a praise to the sky
While a light aeroplane sprayed the fields
With a silvery rain
Furry backed bees with a tireless drone
Never moan, theyre happy to be working
And a grasshopper green could be heard but not seen
While a light aeroplane sprayed the fields
With a silvery rain
Fly away, peter, fly away, paul
Before theres nothing left to fly at all
Take to the sky, higher than high
Before the silvery rain begins to fall
Nothing moves now but the swaying ripe corn
Not a dawn is greeted with a birds song
Theres a feather or two from a bird that once flew
Before a light aeroplane sprayed the fields
With a silvery rain

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song performed by Olivia Newton-John
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

quote by Vladimir Nabokov
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Mercy Is Absent

Poachers, butchers and choppers
Have no mercy in their acts.
God is a terminator and an annihilator,
From whom exudes duty not mercy

(07.06.2011)

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

quote by Izabella Scorupco
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The parachute

I get a brown parachute
and make sure that it’s folded right,
strap it to my back
and feel that it fits well.

You must make certain
that a parachute
can carry weight,
if it’s a parachute

I accompany a troop of soldiers
into a aeroplane
that takes of roaring from the runway
and we fly higher and higher
until the light first flashes red
and then green
and the aircrafts engines stop
while my heart beats in my throat

I get my turn

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poem by Gert Strydom
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

quote by Orville Wright
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The White Rose of Stalingrad

Her nickname was Lilya.
In the Great Patriotic War
When Hitler’s armies invaded the Soviet Union
She became a Soviet air ace,
Known as the “White Rose of Stalingrad”.

Lydia Litvak was born
Into a Moscow Jewish family.
In 1935, at the age of 14, she joined a flight club
And a year later she had her first solo flight.
When the Germans attacked Russia,
Lilya joined the Soviet Air Force.

In the summer of 1942 she was assigned
To the 437th Combat Regiment
Fighting over the skies of Stalingrad.
At first the men were reluctant
To take her seriously
But soon it became evident
That she was an excellent pilot.

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poem by Paul Hartal
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I don't want to talk about 'it'!

No thanks.

I don’t want to talk about ‘it’.
‘It’? F*cking ‘it’?

That
tiny,
snivelling
insignificant
mono
syllab ic simile
for something that’s bigger
than a f*cking aircraft hanger?

Your puerile insensitivity

Let me leave you with that thought.

Hanging in the air,
For you to store in your

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poem by Sue Stone
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My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

quote by Burt Reynolds
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So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

quote by David R. Ellis
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In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.

quote by Mel Smith
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