'Slipping the Surly Bonds - Great Quotations on Flight'
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Magic and Wonder of Flight |
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Predictions |
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First Flights |
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Air Power |
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Combat |
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Bums on Seats |
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Humour |
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Miscellaneous |
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Piloting |
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Safety |
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Women Fly |
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Last Words |
'Slipping the Surly Bonds - Great Quotations on Flight' by Dave English
...here is a unique collection of the most compelling words ever spoken about flying and spotlights one of humankind's greatest, most enduring and most spectacular accomplishments - the gravity defying conquest of the skies.
Gathered together here for the first time, these quotations convey the drama, achievement and pure thrill of flying.
It is an utterly unique collection of 1,000 of the most memorable thoughts on flight down through the ages. Concisely capturing flying's special allure and excitement as well as its humor and tragedy, this power-packed anthology of quotations by Leonardo da Vinci, Lindbergh, Armstrong, Yeager, and hundreds of others amply illustrates why, as aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal rhapsodized, "To fly is everything."
There's much to be learned as well as enjoyed..."- Rod Machado, aviation writer and personality SOAR WITH THE IMMORTALS OF THE AIR From the exhilarating "High Flight" (the source of this book's title) to John Glenn's expressions of wonder in orbit, 'Slipping the Surly Bonds' will carry you into the sky with the greatest airmen and women of all time.
You'll meet dreamers, balloonists, and inventors of aeroplanes - da Vinci, Lindbergh, Armstrong, Yeager, and hundreds more.
A true labour of love, shining with passion, adventure, and eloquence, this collection will leave it's reader yearning for wings.
Contributing quotations are from aviation greats such as:
Plato, Igor I. Sikorsky, Chuck Yeager, Neil Armstrong, Ernest Hemingway, William Blake, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jacques Alexandre Cesare Charles, Charles F. Duryea, Nevil Shute, Maria Edgeworth, Tom Wolfe, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Christa McAuliffe, Wernher von Braun, Horace Walpole, Patricia Robertson Miller, Wilbur Wright, Alfred Kahn, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Francis Gary Powers, Hannah Whitall Smith, Beryl Markham, Amelia Earhart, Mary Shafer, Cecil Day Lewis, Linda Finch, Manfred Rittmeister von Richtofen and Stephen Coonts.
Some reviews of 'Slipping the Surly Bonds' include:
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It is said there's a book in everyone, and Dave English's was coaxed out by associates and friends who told him he had so much written material on the thrill of flight that he should compile and share it. English, a full-time pilot and part-time aviation writer, had piles of passages about aviation from books, letters from people at Boeing and NASA, reflections, inventors, and groaner cliches from pilots. His volume of compelling words on flight is called Slipping The Surly Bonds and surly it is not. Entertaining and quickly gratifying it is.
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A great selection of quotations on flight arranged in 14 chapters, that will serve as good reading for the soul as well as provide a resource of printed wisdom that pretty much covers the entire spectrum of aviation to date ... Thoughtful sayings, cliches, last words, cockpit humor -- it's all here, nicely printed, neatly arranged, and ready for use.
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From man's earliest expressions on the magic of flight to the chilling last words of some of aviation's giants, Slipping The Surly Bonds: Great Quotations on Flight, is a unique collection of the most memorable thoughts on flight. Capturing flying's special allure and excitement as well as its humor and tragedy, this anthology of quotations by da Vinci, Lindbergh, Armstrong, Yeager, and others amply illustrates why, as aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal rhapsodized, to fly is everything.
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A collection of memorable thoughts on flight ... quotations about one of humankind's greatest and most enduring accomplishments - the gravity-defying conquest of the skies.
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"Slipping the Surly Bonds is the coffee-table, Christmas and birthday gift aviation fans have been looking for...better buy a few copies of this book; one to keep...the other to give away..."
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A new book by Pro Pilot contributing writer Dave English called Slipping The Surly Bonds: Great Quotations on Flight, captures the best quotes from da Vinci, Lindbergh, Armstrong, Yeager and others.
Hard.
230 pages.
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