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I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.
David Mackay
Travel
Space
Thought
Military
Would
Would-Be
Had
Any
Space Travel
Chance
I've been lucky enough to have flown some very interesting aircraft in the past, but SpaceShipTwo is far and away the most exciting of them all.
David Mackay
Past
Enough
Aircraft
Some
Exciting
Most
Been
Very
In The Past
Interesting
Them
Far
Lucky
Away
Flown
For Virgin Galactic's customers, it is transportation to the most amazing experience of their lives. I very much look forward to sending some Scots into space.
David Mackay
Experience
Amazing
Space
Some
Look
Most
Most Amazing
Amazing Experience
Very
Sending
Customers
Much
Transportation
Forward
Lives
When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!
Donald Wills Douglas
You
Safety
Fly
First
Design
Think
Would
Had
Feel
How
When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Clouds
Thought
Men
Somewhere
White
Think
Air
Earth
Sun
Would
See
Above
Clear
Feel
Look
How
Shining
Up
Begin
Than
Patch
Ants
Blue
Bigger
Swiftly
Watching
Below
Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
Eddie Rickenbacker
You
Care
Crowd
Take
Count
Never
Take Care
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Would
Rather
Dollars
Friends
Than
Million
Million Dollars
There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.
Eddie Rickenbacker
World
Worth
Pilot
Victory
Air
More
Outside
Outside World
Squadron
Than
Congratulations
Whole
Gratification
Applause
Receiving
Peculiar
I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
Eddie Rickenbacker
More
Cheated
Know
Times
Than
Anyone
Grim
Reaper
Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.
Eddie Rickenbacker
You
Man
Army
Mistake
Made
Long
Drop
Flying
Out
Jobs
Drop-Out
Dropping
Dead
Safest
Go
Grip
Means
Your
Let Go
Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
Eddie Rickenbacker
You
Training
Car
Long
Control
Sense
Speed
Tremendously
Distances
Hundred
Ears
High
Nerves
Rather
Gives
Through
Driving
Simply
Feel
Hour
Judging
Practise
Sound
Motor
Than
Get
Getting
Which
Racing
Your
Miles
Engine
Helps
Thing
Bones
When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Today
Time
You
Sometimes
Remember
Tomorrow
Hero
Later
Say
Press
Adoration
Crowds
Week
Had
Name
Learned
Heard
Bum
Stock
Scream
Public
Racing
Your
Who
Zero
Set
By The Time
I am not a labor hater.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Hater
Am
Labor
The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Fighting
France
Must
Excitement
Knew
Come
Did
Automobile
Racing
Compare
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Sweet
Sensation
Dying
To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.
Jacqueline Cochran
Death
Me
Live
Would
Would-Be
Risk
Without
Tantamount
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
Manfred von Richthofen
Eyes
Stupidity
Everything
Those
Daring
Pluck
Rascals
Only
French
Frequently
Opponents
May
Depends
Whether
Prefer
English
My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
Manfred von Richthofen
War
Cheese
Gone
Collect
Purpose
Excellency
Another
Dear
Eggs
All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
Manfred von Richthofen
Service
War
Become
Nothing
Our
Months
Several
Papers
About
Had
Contained
Talk
However
Been
Accustomed
Often
Stories
Packed
Fantastic
Whole
Thing
Tedious
We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
Manfred von Richthofen
War
Day
Field
Nil
Our
Possibility
Absolutely
Take
Him
Were
Continue
Quickly
Ordered
Next
Convinced
It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.
Manfred von Richthofen
Single
Collection
Russian
Trophies
Contains
Pity
Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.
Manfred von Richthofen
Time
Opportunities
Enemies
Down
Increased
Increases
Increasing
Possibility
Self
Course
Aeroplanes
Shooting
Same
Same Time
Being
Gains
Shot
Number
I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
Manfred von Richthofen
Today
Time
Experience
Trouble
Skin
Down
Only
Had
Perhaps
Call
Got
Falls
Escaped
Same
Same Time
Being
Which
Might
Shot
Whole
What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.
Mike Melville
You
Dream
Only
Limited
Want
I've got tooth marks on my heart.
Mike Melville
Heart
Tooth
Marks
Got
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
Otto Lilienthal
Fly
Invent
Build
Nothing
Everything
Airplane
Something
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