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AVIATION QUOTE
Inserts a new aviation quote each time the user goes to the
web site. It uses the getMinutes() method, which returns an
integer from 0 - 59, then picks that quote out of a 60-element
array of quotes.
display_quote() displays the quote.
The quotes were found at Dave English's excellent quote site:
http://www.skygod.com
(Or, you could buy his book, "Slipping the Surly Bonds".
JavaScript (c) 2000, Mark Beamish (mbeamish@magi.com)
Last update: October 2, 2000
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function display_quote() {
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Display the quote
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var avQuote = new Array();
i = 0;
//theDate = new Date();
//quoteNum = theDate.getMinutes() + 1;
avQuote[i++] = "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.-- Leonardo da Vinci
";
avQuote[i++] = "Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.-- Neil Armstrong
";
avQuote[i++] = "You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.-- Amelia Earhart
";
avQuote[i++] = "More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination.-- Wilbur Wright
";
avQuote[i++] = "My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.-- Richard Bach
";
avQuote[i++] = "I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.-- Charles A. Lindbergh
";
avQuote[i++] = "If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.-- Louise Thaden, co-founder of the Ninty-Nines
";
avQuote[i++] = "Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.-- Richard Bach
";
avQuote[i++] = "Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.-- Richard Bach
";
avQuote[i++] = "The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.-- Gordon Baxter
";
avQuote[i++] = "Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.-- Ernest K. Gann
";
avQuote[i++] = "Do not spin this aircraft. If the aircraft does enter a spin it will return to earth without further attention on the part of the aeronaut.-- first handbook issued with the Curtis-Wright flyer.
";
avQuote[i++] = "I've never seen an airplane yet that can read the type ratings on your pilot's license.-- Chuck Boedecker
";
avQuote[i++] = "I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.-- General Chuck Yeager
";
avQuote[i++] = "Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is -- it goes on wings.-- Wolfgang Langewiesche
";
avQuote[i++] = "The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.-- Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
";
avQuote[i++] = "Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day.-- Layton A. Bennett
";
avQuote[i++] = "Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician. After you know what to look for you see things that you did not notice when you did not know exactly what to look for.-- Orville Wright
";
avQuote[i++] = "Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee.-- William Kershner
";
avQuote[i++] = "Don't ever let an airplane take you someplace where your brain hasn't arrived at least a couple of minutes earlier.-- Andy Anderson
";
avQuote[i++] = "They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.-- George MacDonald
";
avQuote[i++] = "The Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.-- Max Stanley
";
avQuote[i++] = "You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.-- Paul F. Crickmore, SR-71 Pilot
";
avQuote[i++] = "Rule One: No matter what else happens, fly the airplane. And fly it until the last piece stops moving.-- Anon
";
avQuote[i++] = "An airplane flies because of a principle discovered by Bernoulli, not Marconi - Don't drop the aircraft in order to fly the microphone.-- Anon
";
avQuote[i++] = "Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.-- Anon
";
avQuote[i++] = "Experience is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson.-- Anon
";
avQuote[i++] = "Nothing said I had to crash.-- Bob Hoover, after hitting a telephone wire and losing two feet of wing
";
avQuote[i++] = "Lady, you want me to answer you if this old airplane is safe to fly? Just how in the world do you think it got to be this old?-- Jim Tavenner
";
avQuote[i++] = "I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it and read what it says: 'When color of card matches color of sky, FLY!-- Gordon Baxter, on checking the weather
";
avQuote[i++] = "Flying a plane is no different from riding a bicycle. It's just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.-- Captain Rex Kramer (Airplane)
";
avQuote[i++] = "What's the hurry? Are you afraid I won't come back?-- Last recorded words of Manfred von Richthofen, The Red Baron
";
avQuote[i++] = "If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds; but if you really wish to learn, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial.-- Wilbur Wright
";
avQuote[i++] = "In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.-- Wilbur Wright
";
avQuote[i++] = "Usually [aviation accidents occur] because someone does too much too soon, followed very quickly by too little too late.-- Steve Wilson, NTSB investigator
";
avQuote[i++] = "Mix ignorance with arrogance at low altitude and the results are almost guaranteed to be spectacular.-- Bruce Landsberg, AOPA
";
avQuote[i++] = "I know how to never have another Challenger. I know how to never have another leak, and never to screw up another mirror, and that is to stop and build some shopping centers in the desert.-- J. R. Thompson, NASA Deputy Administrator
";
avQuote[i++] = "It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one's friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.-- Glenn Curtiss
";
avQuote[i++] = "To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything.-- Otto Lilienthal
";
avQuote[i++] = "Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.-- Igor Sikorsky
";
avQuote[i++] = "He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.-- Psalms XVIII, 10
";
avQuote[i++] = "No bird ever flew nonstop from New York to Tokyo, or raced 15 miles high at triple the speed of sound. But birds do something else. They do not conquer the air; they romance it.-- Peter Garrison
";
avQuote[i++] = "To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.-- Anon
";
avQuote[i++] = "I owned the world that hour as I rode over it: free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.-- Charles Lindbergh
";
avQuote[i++] = "We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.-- Richard Bach
";
avQuote[i++] = "In order to invent the airplane you must have at least a thousand years' experience dreaming of angels.-- Arnold Rockman
";
avQuote[i++] = "Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.-- Michael Parfit
";
avQuote[i++] = "I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.-- E. B. Jeppesen
";
avQuote[i++] = "My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the space shuttle.-- Shuttle Cmdr Col. Eileen Collins
";
avQuote[i++] = "Ladies and gentleman, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.-- Captain Eric Moody, after flying his B-747 through volcanic ash
";
avQuote[i++] = "I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.-- Antoine de St-Exupéry
";
avQuote[i++] = "To fly a kite is to hold God's hand.-- Daniel C. Hawkins
";
avQuote[i++] = "Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.-- Mickey Rupp
";
avQuote[i++] = "When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.-- Patrick Overton
";
avQuote[i++] = "You can always tell when a man has lost his soul to flying. The poor bastard is hopelessly committed to stopping whatever he is doing long enough to look up and make sure the aircraft purring overhead continues on course and does not suddenly fall out of the sky. It is also his bound duty to watch every aircraft within view take off and land.-- Ernest K Gann
";
avQuote[i++] = "I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.-- T. H. White
";
avQuote[i++] = "And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves -- it will always remain magic.-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
";
avQuote[i++] = ". . . If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the innermost parts of the sea.-- Epitaph, Charles A. Lindbergh
";
avQuote[i++] = "You're gonna have to key the mike. I can't see you when you nod your head.-- Chicago O'Hare ATC Transmission
";
avQuote[i++] = "My first wife didn't like to fly, either.-- Gordon Baxter
";
avQuote[i++] = "Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory.--Rules of Flying #1
";
avQuote[i++] = "If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.-- Anon
";
avQuote[i++] = "Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous.--Rules of Flying #3
";
avQuote[i++] = "It's always better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you were down here.--Rules of Flying #4
";
avQuote[i++] = "The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.--Rules of Flying #5
";
avQuote[i++] = "The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool. When it stops, you can actually watch the pilot start sweating.--Rules of Flying #6
";
avQuote[i++] = "When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No one has ever collided with the sky.--Rules of Flying #7
";
avQuote[i++] = "A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. A 'great' landing is one after which they can use the plane again.--Rules of Flying #8
";
avQuote[i++] = "Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.--Rules of Flying #9
";
avQuote[i++] = "You know you've landed with the wheels up if it takes full power to taxi to the ramp.--Rules of Flying #10
";
avQuote[i++] = "The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. Large angle of arrival, small probability of survival and vice versa.--Rules of Flying #11
";
avQuote[i++] = "Stay out of clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps talking about might be another airplane going in the opposite direction. Reliable sources also report that mountains have been known to hide out in clouds.--Rules of Flying #13
";
avQuote[i++] = "Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal to the number of take offs you've made.--Rules of Flying #14
";
avQuote[i++] = "There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.--Rules of Flying #15
";
avQuote[i++] = "You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.-- Anon
";
avQuote[i++] = "If all you can see out of the window is ground that's going round and round and all you can hear is commotion coming from the passenger compartment, things are not at all as they should be.--Rules of Flying #18
";
avQuote[i++] = "In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose.--Rules of Flying #19
";
avQuote[i++] = "Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment.--Rules of Flying #20
";
avQuote[i++] = "It's always a good idea to keep the pointy end going forward as much as possible.--Rules of Flying #21
";
avQuote[i++] = "Keep looking around. There's always something you've missed.--Rules of Flying #22
";
avQuote[i++] = "Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. It's the law. And it's not subject to repeal.--Rules of Flying #23
";
avQuote[i++] = "The four most useless things to a pilot are the altitude above you, runway behind you, fuel on the ground, and a tenth of a second ago.--Rules of Flying #24
";
//document.write(avQuote[quoteNum]);
document.write(avQuote[Math.floor(Math.random() * i)]);
}