More great aviation quotes - these are from a friend in the military!

• 'If the enemy is in range, so are you.' - Infantry Journal

• 'It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.' - U.S. Air Force Manual

• 'Tracers work both ways.' - U.S. Army Ordnance
  
  

• 'Five second fuses only last three seconds.' - Infantry Journal
  
  

• 'Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once.'
  
  

• 'Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.' - Unknown Marine Recruit
  
  

• 'If you see a bomb technician running, keep up with him.' - USAF Ammo Troop
  
  

• 'You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.' - Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot)
  
  

• 'The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'

• 'If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe.'

• 'When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.'
  

• 'Even with ammunition, the USAF is just another expensive flying club.'

• 'What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
  If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies;
  If an air traffic controller screws up, .... the pilot dies.'

• 'Never trade luck for skill.'

• The three most common expressions (or famous last words), in aviation are:
  1) 'Why is it doing that?'
  2) 'Where are we?' And
  3) 'Oh shit!'
  
  

• 'Airspeed, altitude, and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.'

• 'Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!'

• 'Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.'

• 'The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.' - Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)
  

• 'There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.
  Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970

• 'If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to.'

• 'You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal.'

• As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives; the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks, 'What happened?'
  
  The pilot's reply: 'I don't know, I just got here myself!'
  - Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)