Richard Bach - Flight Quotes

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The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

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He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.

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We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

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For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

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Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again.

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I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions.

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