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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Wilbus on September 08, 2005, 02:31:44 PM
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At the point when you start to equate the price of a video game or its delayed release to some kind of cataclysmic world event or social injustice, that's when you become an idiot.
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Originally posted by Wilbus
Best quote so far
Yep. Think so too. :D
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Dunno. I always liked
"When being shot at. Shoot back" -Irwin Rommel
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This is a winner........
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
General George S. Patton
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I normally go out of my way to coach my comments to even those I violently disagree with in a non-confrontational way, and with a degree of respect I believe human beings deserve. So please take this in the spirit it is intended...
Go to hell.
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"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue--and thoroughly immoral--doctrine that 'violence never solves anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
- Robert Heinlein
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"Ask me about things I'm familiar with, like drugs or prostitution."
Rodney Dangerfield
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"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying. And in that time when men decide they feel safe and call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentile heroes you left behind."
Major Michael Davis O'Donnell, 1 January 1970. Dak To, Vietnam
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And file sharing? Why is it that merely downloading Peer to Peer software now means you're exposing yourself to more backdoor activity than a busty seventeen- year-old-Bangkok-beauty speaking broken English innuendoes at the Corkscrew Club in PatPong? Spyware has your PC being probed more than a blossoming boy-band applicant from some Podunk map dot anywhere west of the Mississippi.
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Age and theachery will always triumph over youth and agility.
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Forgiveness is devine, but never pay full price for late pizza.
Michelangelo
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Jimmy cracked corn because it was in his blood. His father cracked corn, as did his grandfather before him. In layman's terms, he was a cracker, descended from a long line of crackers.
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Most acts of war appear inappropriate when witnessed from the safety of one's living room.
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Teacher - Hey, you kids didn't learn how WW2 ended.
Long pause.
Teacher - We won!
Kids - YAY!
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The big balls award:
In Uganda, there is a hunter who hunts gorillas. Not to uncommon, you might suppose. Only this guy doesn't kill the gorillas. He just tranquilizes them, then dresses them in clown suits. Several gorillas have been found running around like this, and Ugandan authorities have yet to capture this funny mother****er. I say he has gigantic balls, because I think it's a death sentence to pull this kind of **** in Africa. After all, they kill people for theoretically shrinking noodlees.
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The flight simmer's valentines gift prayer:
go in peace my son.
wait. i hear a voice. somunimum dai sumundaus...there another man out there...a man with a shirt. yes HALEHLUHJA a shirt...and pants...lord have mercy... oh how he sufferes lord...he's looking for the right gift lord...sai taitus germundey...yes...hes looking for the right gift because last years gift didnt bring the humpitty love that he so desperately needed...que venissuttio dei...
help him lord...help him find the right gift that he may be blessed with the boobies that you made with your righteous wisdom...dominus rexius...whats that lord?
you say she wants a new joystick?!
god be praised! in homminum del christo.
amen.
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The French approach to net-centric warfare favors the concept of "sensor to commander to shooter, in keeping with the observe-orient-decide-act (OODA) concept developed by the US Air Force strategist Colonel John Boyd long before the emergence of NCW. Humans may fail, of course, in which case the formula may turn into observe-overreact-destroy-apologize.
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WOMAN: Well, how did you become King, then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,... [angels sing] ...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
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THE END
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Done been there Wolfla. He sent me back. Think he thought I was gonna take over.
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"Somebody tries to kill you, you kill 'em right back!" - Firefly (TV series)
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"Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win the war."
General George S. Patton
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John Wayne as Wil Anderson...
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"Sighted sub, sank same".
Karaya
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"Take this five gallon gasoline can to Montgomery with this message; "Although I am sadly short of gasoline myself, I know of your admiration for our equipment and supplies and I can spare you this five gallons. It will be more than enough to take you as far as you probably will advance in the next two days."
G.S. Patton
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LOL. I was talking about the new version quote in AH ;)
Meaning best quote to date in AH versions :)
But please, keep on posting quotes here, several good ones already so it's very nice to read.
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Anything Churchill.
"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." --Speech made to House of Commons on May 13, 1940, three days after becoming Prime Minister. Churchill first used it earlier in the day when he spoke to his Cabinet which represented all parties
"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" Speech about Dunkirk given in House of Commons June 4, 1940.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=389
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From the mayor of Hiroshima.
"What the hell was that?"
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Of course...
(See red sig line)
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Fishfightor****riideahorsedriveatruck.
If you can say it fast without slurring it you havn't had enough to drink yet.
(Insert your town name here) rules
A quick way of saying A: there ain't no rules we going to whip your oscar.
B: If you insist on rules ok, but we will make them up as we go along to favor our side. Cause we still going to whip your oscar.
C Its not cheating if there are no rules. See A.
D Anything goes at any time for any reason. See B.
(Dirty Dozen, class of 70)
When it doubt always throw the first punch. If you were wrong you can always apoligise afterwords.
If you were right, having the first good punch can make all the difference in winning.
(Unkown village drunkard)
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"madame I know what kind of person you are..................... I was merely enquiring as to the price"
George Bernard Shaw
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"Their inability to understand is also a result of their different belief system, and the influence of Satan's subtle powers on them." -- Wanda Barzee, accused kidnapper of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, explaining that she's not insane even though two mental health experts testified that she was.
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" The secret ingredient is feet "
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General George Armstrong Custer
"Where the heck did all these indians come from?"
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"The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war."
- Chesty Puller in a letter to his wife while in Korea
"They are a damn site better than the U.S. Army, at least we know that they will be there in the morning."
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller
when a journalist asked him about being surrounded by 12 Chinese divisions
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"There once was a girl from Nantucket..."
No no, wait, let me do a real one...
"Mister Merrick, you will tell the men there are four ways of doing things on my ship: the right way, the wrong way, the Navy way, and my way. We do things my way and we'll get along just fine."
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fROM sOME BODY.....
"Women, you can't live with'em and you can't put'em in a Troy Built Chipper Vac!"
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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother - William Shakespear.
"I treasure my remark to a grandson who asked", Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?" "No", I answered, "But I served in a company of heroes". - Real life interview with Richard Winters where he quotes Mike Ranney on how he answered a question his grandson once asked him.
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"A Mig on your six is better than no Mig at all..."
Unknown
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. Mencken
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"What did you do in the war, daddy,
how did you help us win?"
"Takeoffs, landings, and stalls, laddy,
and how to get out of a spin."
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Originally posted by Furball
Anything Churchill.
"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." --Speech made to House of Commons on May 13, 1940, three days after becoming Prime Minister. Churchill first used it earlier in the day when he spoke to his Cabinet which represented all parties
"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" Speech about Dunkirk given in House of Commons June 4, 1940.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=389
Furby, you know of any sites that have voice stream of churchill? I'd love to hear more than a few snippets of his speeches... and he's one of those guys whose speeches gain even more from the presentation.
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"Spartans do not ask how many the enemy are, but where they are."[/i][/size]
- Agis of Sparta, 415 B.C.
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"Wait, this isn't my Viagra..." -Hitler
(Sorry, I had to)
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"Do you feel lucky punk......" Dirty Harry:mad:
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"As I have said, there are two types of fighter pilots, pilots who are fighter pilots and pilots who are flying a fighter plane. - Authur Feidler
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"Candy-gram for Mongo. Candy-gram for Mongo." -Sheriff Bart
"If you don't yer meat, you can't have any pudding. HOW can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?!" -PF
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Tracers work both ways.
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Originally posted by ALF
" The secret ingredient is feet "
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what are you doing watching kiddy shows?
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Originally posted by vorticon
what are you doing watching kiddy shows?
That kinda happens when yas got a kid:aok
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"I drank what?!?!" - Last words of Socrates
ack-ack
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Friendly fire - isn't.
Recoilless rifles - aren't.
Suppressive fires - won't.
You are not Superman; Marines and fighter pilots take note.
A sucking chest wound is Nature's way of telling you to slow down.
If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you.
If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike.
The enemy attacks on two ocasions: when he's ready and when your not
If you are forward of your position, your artillery will fall short
All 5 second grenade fuses burn down in 3 seconds
Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself.
Never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself.
When your attack is going really well, its an ambush
Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
If your attack is going really well, it's an ambush.
The enemy diversion you're ignoring is their main attack.
The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions: when they're ready. & when you're not.
No OPLAN ever survives initial contact.
There is no such thing as a perfect plan.
Five second fuzes always burn three seconds.
There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.
A retreating enemy is probably just falling back and regrouping.
The important things are always simple; the simple are always hard.
The easy way is always mined.
Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.
Don't look conspicuous; it draws fire. For this reason, it is not at all uncommon for aircraft carriers to be known as bomb magnets.
Never draw fire; it irritates everyone around you.
If you are short of everything but the enemy, you are in the combat zone.
When you have secured the area, make sure the enemy knows it too.
Incoming fire has the right of way.
No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.
No inspection ready unit has ever passed combat.
If the enemy is within range, so are you.
The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
Things which must be shipped together as a set, aren't.
Things that must work together, can't be carried to the field that way.
Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support.
Radar tends to fail at night and in bad weather, and especially during both.
Anything you do can get you killed, including nothing.
Make it too tough for the enemy to get in, and you won't be able to get out.
Tracers work both ways.
If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will get more than your fair share of objectives to take.
When both sides are convinced they're about to lose, they're both right.
Professional soldiers are predictable; the world is full of dangerous amateurs.
Military Intelligence is a contradiction.
Fortify your front; you'll get your rear shot up.
Weather ain't neutral.
If you can't remember, the Claymore is pointed towards you.
Air defense motto: shoot 'em down; sort 'em out on the ground.
'Flies high, it dies; low and slow, it'll go.
The Cavalry doesn't always come to the rescue.
Napalm is an area support weapon.
Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
B-52s are the ultimate close support weapon.
Sniper's motto: reach out and touch someone.
Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity.
The one item you need is always in short supply.
Interchangeable parts aren't.
It's not the one with your name on it; it's the one addressed "to whom it may concern" you've got to think about.
When in doubt, empty your magazine.
The side with the simplest uniforms wins.
Combat will occur on the ground between two adjoining maps.
If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you may have misjudged the situation.
If two things are required to make something work, they will never be shipped together.
Anything you do can get you shot, including nothing.
Whenever you lose contact with the enemy, look behind you.
The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.
The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.
If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap.
There is nothing more satisfying than having someone take a shot at you, and miss.
If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.
You'll only remember your hand grenades when the sound is too close to use them.
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Well .. It could be worse: It could be raining .. and we could be out in it.
So he said, "Cheer up: it could be worse!" So we cheered up. And it got worse.
The spare batteries for the PRC-whatever your troops have been carrying are either nearly dead or for the wrong radio.
The ping you heard was the antenna snapping off at 6 inches above the flexmount, while a fire mission was being called in on a battalion of hostiles who know your position.
Why is it the CO sticks his head in your radio hooch to see if anything has come down from DIV when you are listening to the VOA broadcasting the baseball games?
How come you are on one frequency when everyone else is on another?
Why does your 500-watt VRC-26 (real old) not make it across 200 miles while a ham with 50 watts on the same MARS frequency can be heard from Stateside?
Know why short RTOs have long whips on their radios? So someone can find them when they step in deep water.
The enemy "Alway's" times his attack, to the second you drop your pant's in the Latrine!!
The ammo you need "NOW"!! is on the "Next" airdrop!!
The enemy inevitably attacks on two occasions: when they're ready and when you're not.
Field experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
If your ambush is properly set the enemy won't walk into it.
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Originally posted by Simaril
Furby, you know of any sites that have voice stream of churchill? I'd love to hear more than a few snippets of his speeches... and he's one of those guys whose speeches gain even more from the presentation.
here are a few i found: -
http://www.earthstation1.com/wcwwii.html (lots here)
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_50.html
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_51.html
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_52.html
http://www.earthstation1.com/Churchillia/wc400604.ram <- full fight them on the beaches speech
(some of these were speeches reinacted after the war, so lack the passion of the originals)
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Lady: Winston [Churchill], if you were my husband, I'd poison you!
Churchill: Ma'am, if I was your husband, I'd take it.
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Originally posted by Furball
here are a few i found: -
http://www.earthstation1.com/wcwwii.html (lots here)
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_50.html
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_51.html
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_52.html
http://www.earthstation1.com/Churchillia/wc400604.ram <- full fight them on the beaches speech
(some of these were speeches reinacted after the war, so lack the passion of the originals)
Thanks!!
:aok
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Custer
"Hey is that an Indian over there?"
trooper
"Yea, ask her if she's got a friend for me."
"Democracy is no harlot to be picked up in the street by a man with a tommygun."
Churchill
On making mistakes in the war.
"We are paying for it with our treasure and our blood. We are not paying for it with our honour or by defeat."
Churchill
"If you can meet Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same"
Kipling
"..in all her wars, England always wins one battle, the last."
Venizelos
"The price of greatness is responsibility. Ifthe people of the United States had continued in a mediocre station, absorbed in their own affairs and a factor of no consquence in the movement ofthe world, they might have remained forgotten and undisturbed beyond their protecting oceans."
Churchhill
"We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy."
Churchill
"We must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough."
Churchill
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"who be boo"??
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Originally posted by Phaser11
From the mayor of Hiroshima.
"What the hell was that?"
LMAO !!!!
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my favorite quote is a stan laurel one..
" you can take a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead"
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"The best tactic against a LaGG-7 is to shoot it down."
Gόnther Rall, 275 victories
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"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." - Vito Corleone
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"But Mommy I dont want to visit grandpa"
"Stut up and keep digging"
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
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"Good. Bad. I'm the one with the gun."
-Ash
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"I bought a talking parrot, but it did not say it was hungry, so it died"
Mitch Hedburg
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Dont shoot him, you'll only make him mad
Blazzing Saddles
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"You show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser"
FTDEEP
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Good flying never killed [an enemy] yet.
Major Edward 'Mick' Mannock, RAF
Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice.
Derek Robinson, 'Piece of Cake.'
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 allotted 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. I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.
Richard Bach, 'Stranger to the Ground,' 1963.
I hate to shoot a Hun down without him seeing me, for although this method is in accordance with my doctrine, it is against what little sporting instincts I have left.
B. McCudden, V.C., 1917.
Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.
Captain Edward V. 'Eddie' Rickenbacker, USAS
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
General Chuck Yeager, USAF
Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman. It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. The were made to fly as wingman, instead.
Colonel Erich 'Bubi' Hartmann, Luftwaffe.
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be spoiled either by his successes or by the generous congratulations of his comrades. If he were capable of being spoiled he would not have had the character to have won continuous victories, for the smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.
Captain Edward V. 'Eddie' Rickenbacker, USAS
The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.
Baron Manfred von Richthofen, 1917. Richtofen would not let members of his Staffel strafe troops in the trenches.
Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back.
Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.
The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.
Lt. Colonel W. A. 'Billy' Bishop, RAF.
In nearly all cases where machines have been downed, it was during a fight which had been very short, and the successful burst of fire had occurred within the space of a minute after the beginning of actual hostilities.
Lt. Colonel W. A. 'Billy' Bishop, RAF.
Aerial gunnery is 90 percent instinct and 10 percent aim.
Captain Frederick C. Libby, RFC.
I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop. I was at the front five and a half years, and you just got a feeling for the right amount of lead.
Lt. General Guenther Rall, Luftwaffe.
You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock him down from point-blank range. You'll get him from in close. At long distance, it's questionable.
Colonel Erich 'Bubi' Hartmann, Luftwaffe.
I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have a shot of less than 20 degrees deflection and until I'm within 300 yards. Good discipline on this score can make up for a great deal.
Lt. Colonel John C. Meyer, USAAF.
Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.
Major Thomas B. 'Tommy' McGuire, USAAF.
I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it doesn't matter what your angle is to him or whether you are in a turn or any other maneuver.
Colonel Erich 'Bubi' Hartmann, Luftwaffe.
As long as I look into the muzzles, nothing can happen to me. Only if he pulls lead am I in danger.
Captain Hans-Joachim Marseille, Luftwaffe.
Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one-seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.
Baron Manfred von Richthofen
I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near.
Baron Manfred von Richthofen
A fighter without a gun . . . is like an airplane without a wing.
Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.
See, decide, attack, reverse.
Major Erich 'Bubi' Hartmann, Luftwaffe.
I'm waiting to be told how cobras, hooks, or vectored thrust help in combat. They're great at air shows, but zero energy is a fighter pilot's nightmare. Shoot your opponent down and his number two will be on your tail thinking it's his birthday -- a target hanging there in the sky with zero energy.
Ned Firth, Eurofighter
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?
H. G. Wells, 'The World Set Free,' 1914.
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying.
Francis Gary Power, U-2
The Yo-Yo is very difficult to explain. It was first perfected by the well-known Chinese fighter pilot Yo-Yo Noritake. He also found it difficult to explain, being quite devoid of English.
Squadron Leader K. G. Holland, RAF.
I never went into the air thinking I would lose.
Commander Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, USN.
It is probable that future war will be conducted by a special class, the air force, as it was by the armored Knights of the Middle Ages.
Brigadier General William 'Billy' Mitchell, USAAF.
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.
Lt. General Adolph Galland, Luftwaffe.
Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in air-to-air combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.
Captain David McCampbell, USN.
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.
Captain Edward V. 'Eddie' Rickenbacker.
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Fly with the head and not with the muscles. That is the way to long life for a fighter pilot. The fighter pilot who is all muscle and no head will never live long enough for a pension.
Colonel Willie Bats, Luftwaffe, 237 Victories, W.W. II.
Know and use all the capabilities in your airplane. If you don't, sooner or later, some guy who does use them all will kick your ass.
Dave 'Preacher' Pace
If you're in a fair fight, you didn't plan it properly.
Nick Lappos, Chief R&D Pilot, Sikorsky Aircraft.
The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.
Gunther Rall, Luftwaffe, 275 victories.
I saw the lightnings gleaming rod.
Reach forth and write upon the sky
The awful autograph of God.
Joaquin Miller, 'The Ship In The Desert.'
There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
Joseph Heller, 'Catch22.'
We were stripped down, even the turrets were removed. You were light and real fast, though. Our 12th squadron motto was 'Alone Unarmed Unafraid.' As you can imagine, this actually translated into something more like, 'Alone Unarmed and Scared ****less.'
Theodore R. 'Dick' Newell, Korean War pilot, 12th TAC Reconnaissance Squadron, on flying the reconnaissance version of the B-26.
We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "****" on their airplanes because? It's obscene!
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in the 1979 movie 'Apocalypse Now.'
In blossom today, then scattered:
Life is so like a delicate flower.
How can one expect the fragrance
To last forever?
Vice Admiral Ohnishi, Kamikaze Special Attack Force
I don't mind being called tough, because in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.
Curtis LeMay
Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew four-engines bombers during World War II. He was in B-17 Flying Fortresses out of England, they say. His cautious, conservative approach to every situation and the complexity of the plays he sends in do seem to reflect the philosophy of a pilot trained to doggedly press on according to plans laid down before takeoff. I sometimes wonder how the Cowboys would have fared all this years had Tom flown fighters in combat situations which dictated continuously changing tactics.
Len Morgan, 'View from the Cockpit.'
Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the pilot who is successful in combat and who has the best opportunity for surviving battle and coming home.
Major Robert S. Johnson, USAAF.
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.
Baron Manfred von Richthofen
There are only two types of aircraft -- fighters and targets.
Doyle 'Wahoo' Nicholson, USMC.
A speck of dirt on your windscreen could turn into an enemy fighter in the time it took to look round and back again. A little smear on your goggles might hide the plane that was coming in to kill you.
Derek Robinson, 'Piece of Cake.'
Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.
Lt. General Adolph 'Dolpho' Galland, Luftwaffe.
One of the secrets of air fighting was to see the other man first. Seeing airplanes from great distances was a question of experience and training, of knowing where to look and what to look for. Experienced pilots always saw more than the newcomers, because the later were more concerned with flying than fighting. . . . The novice had little idea of the situation, because his brain was bewildered by the shock and ferocity of the fight.
Air Vice-Marshal J. E. 'Johnnie' Johnson, RAF.
Only the spirit of attack borne in a brave heart will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.
Lt. General Adolph 'Dolpho' Galland, Luftwaffe.
The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of self-confidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than the individual who subjects himself to battle shorn of any protection but his own skill, his own belief in himself and in his wingman. Righteousness is necessary for one's peace of mind, perhaps, but it is a poor substitute for agility . . . and a resolution to meet the enemy under any conditions and against any odds.
Major Robert S. Johnson, USAAF.
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Secret to great BBQ Never clean your grill
Al Bundy
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"What, me worry" Alfred E Newman
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they couldn't hit an elephant at this dis...
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I feel the need... the need for speed!
Was what I originally ment, but this thread has turned out nicely :D (not thanks to me though, I only read it :D )
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Great quotes Edbert. This one really struck me, I guess because it sums up how I approach AH:
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he possesses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.
Lt. General Adolph Galland, Luftwaffe.