Pretty Exciting

By lex, on August 24th, 2011

Only one aircraft available to play today, and it went to my classmate out of courtesy, like. Myself having gone first the day prior. While the first “flight” in our transition syllabus involved a military power run to 80 KTS before executing a no-drag chute abort, today’s mission took us to 100 KTS in mid-range grunt. The brakes are designed to dissipate the aircraft’s kinetic energy by converting it into heat, and their ability to do so is limited by the thermal uptake capacity of the brake pads.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

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— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex