👨🏼✈️ Dave English, Airbus & glider pilot. ✈️ Posting my perpetual pursuit of piloting perfection.
Harvard, Massachusetts
Joined October 2011
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#OnThisDay 1968: Schoolteacher Frances MacRae explained why she loves aerobatics, as she prepared to represent Britain at the World Aerobatic Championships.
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“I learned that the sport wasn’t what I thought it was. The sport is a psychological test. It’s you finding out who you are, it’s finding out what you’re capable of, how far you can go before you break.”
@jebcorliss, professional #skydiver, BASE jumper, and #wingsuit flyer.
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This is my iPad’s wallpaper, a graph for FLY! that shows learning paths to achieve eminence, or overconfidence and complacency causing an inevitable drift to failure.
Stress Proof Deliberate Practice is the optimum path to resilience-success.
FLY!
#SPDP #DeliberatePractice
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Force calm upon yourself in moments of crisis.
Calm is rooted in confidence; confidence comes from having actual capabilities based on real world experience—not wishful thinking.
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You can't force your way to a great performance.
Trying harder is a recipe for tensing up, getting anxious, and performing poorly.
Put yourself in position to perform, then let it come to you.
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#Lindbergh #flying
“Slim, what are you going to do after the noise dies down?
Fly.
But I mean—say five years from now?
Fly.
Well, don‘t you intend to get married?
Oh, I suppose that might happen to anyone.
After you’re married what will you do?
#Fly.
Reading News, 18 April 1928
ALT Charles Lindbergh and his chief secretarial aide Fitzhugh Green. Story in several 1928 publications, including The New York World newspaper and US Air Services magazine. This copy from the Reading Times newspaper, Reading, Pennsylvania, 18 April 1928. While probably planted by Green, it rings true to Lindy’s concise speaking style and his deep love of flying.
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#leonardodavinci #quote #flying #avgeek #aviation
“Once you have tasted flight …
The full story behind who really wrote maybe the most repeated flying "quote":
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If a decision is reversible, the biggest risk is moving too slow.
If a decision is irreversible, the biggest risk is moving too fast.
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This para from Mike Riley's superb The Concorde Stick and Rudder Book sums it up perfectly: "What hours of soul-searching must have...passed so that eventually...it was possible...to allow 'airliner' to be painted on the side?" #Concorde
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How does a wing work?
“There is a lot of obscurity surrounding these questions. Indeed, I must confess that I have never encountered a simple answer to them even in the specialist literature.”
~ Albert Einstein, journal Die Naturwissenschaften, 1916.
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*Two Buckets*
Each pilot has two pails
To carry through the skies.
The one with luck is full.
An empty one to fill
up with experience
Is in the other hand.
The object is to fill
The empty pail before
The pail of luck runs out.
#grooks
cc @ArtAirmanship
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The pilots of this plane were flight instructors. And those pilots’ combined 3,500 hours of experience really paid off. There’s not a scratch on the plane or its passenger after landing in a field last night. @KConninTV reports: wsbt.com/news/local/experien…
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Brilliant. One for the slideshow #systemsthinking #safety
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Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly.
Goals are for people who care about winning once.
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“Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.” ~ Buzz Aldrin #ZenMoment #Aviation #PoleToPoleFlight DeLaurentisFoundation(dot)org
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Q: What Does it Cost to Fly?
A: “Everything you've got. And it's worth every penny!”
~ the wonderful Len Morgan, in a @FlyingMagazine column years ago. (From @MaxTrescott web page.)
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“If you're tired of takeoffs, you're tired of life.”
~ Dave Matheny, @EAA Sport Aviation magazine, June 2019.
#pilotlife #avgeek #flying
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As the captain, QF72 is my watch. I will remain on duty until relieved. Capt. Sullivan sums up the burden of command smh.com.au/national/i-ve-bec…
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Jon Snow: “I don’t know how to ride a dragon.”
Queen Daenerys Targaryen: “Nobody does until they ride a dragon.”
#GameofThrones #pilotlife #flighttraining #dragon
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“One of the things you learn from testing airplanes is that nothing is quite true.”
~ Einar Enevoldson, #USAF and #NASA test pilot, in 'Soaring' magazine April 2019. #pilotlife #testpilot #soaring @PerlanProject
