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[Bùi Thái Giang]

Mời anh em bổ sung các câu 'kim châm ngôn' về dù lượn thu thập được ở đây, nhớ ghi nguồn gốc. Thank you.
Máy bay (dù lượn) được THIẾT KẾ để bay, phi công có xu thế thích 'đập'!
'Aircraft are DESIGNED to fly, Pilots are INCLINED to crash'
http://www.hanoipara...p?showtopic=705

What’s happening in the AIR (is it safe for me), is the MAN making the right decisions and skilled enough, and is the SHIP suitable.
http://www.paraglidi...=ewa+wisnierska

Man must rise above the Earth -- to the top of the atmosphere and beyond -- for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." -- Socrates

"My soul is in the sky." -- William Shakespeare, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Scene I.

"The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality." -- Louis Bleriot

"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." -- Amelia Earhart

"More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination." -- Wilbur Wright

"Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death." -- Alexander Chase, 'Perspectives,' 1966

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . ." -- Antoine de St-Exupery

"To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities." -- Nevil Shute, 'Slide Rule'.

"What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?" -- — William Law, 'A Serious Call to a Devout and Holly Life XI,' 1728.

"Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it." -- Samuel Butler

"The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth." -- Antoine de St-Exup?ry, 'Wind, Sand, and Stars,' 1939.

"The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one." -- Wendell Willkie

"We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them." -- Lord Swinton

"Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world." -- Welch Pogue

"Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle." -- Igor Sikorsky

"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings." -- Sir James Matthew Barrie

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from." -- Eric Hoffer, 'New York Times,' 21 July 1969, regards the first moon-landing.

"No bird ever flew nonstop from New York to Tokyo, or raced 15 miles high at triple the speed of sound. But birds do something else. They do not conquer the air; they romance it." -- Peter Garrison

"Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the air to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'North to the Orient,' 1935

"Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands." -- Jean Batten, 'Alone in the Sky' 1979.

"It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven." -- Wernher von Braun, on the importance of space travel, 10 February 1958.

"Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes." -- Charles A. Lindbergh, 'Autobiography of Values.'

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious.  And why shouldn't it be? - it is the same the angels breathe.  ~Mark Twain, "Roughing It"

How strange is this combination of proximity and separation.  That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away.  ~Charles A. Lindbergh

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying.  The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.  ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

There are only two emotions in a plane:  boredom and terror.  ~Orson Welles

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society.  The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.  ~Gil Stern

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.  ~James Dickey

O! for a horse with wings!  ~William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car.  You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights.... Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.  ~William T. Piper

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.  ~Titus Maccius Plautus

Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation.  Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others.  It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin.  ~K.O. Eckland, "Footprints On Clouds"

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.  ~Henry David Thoreau

The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.  ~Walter Raleigh

Angels can fly because they carry no burdens.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

Pilots are a rare kind of human.  They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.  ~Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra

The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche.  ~Cesar Pelli

Why fly?  Simple.  I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.  ~Richard Bach

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing.  The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.  ~Bill Gates

Given angel's wings, where might you fly?
In what sweet heaven might you find your love?
Unwilling to be bound, where might you move,
Lost between the wonder and the why?...
~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com

I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.  ~Richard Bach

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport....  ~Amy Johnson

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.  ~G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.  ~Mary Kay Ash

Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!  ~Author Unknown
    
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?  ~E.Y. Harburg

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.  ~Wilbur Wright

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Learning to fly by Pink Floyd

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction is holding me fast
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unleadened, empty and turned to stone

A soul in tension, is learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Friction lock... Set... Mixture... Rich propellers... Fully forward flaps... Set... Ten degrees...
Full gauges and suction - check
Gas set to maximum percent - recheck
Flight instruments...
Altimeters - check both
Navigation lights - on
(garbled word that seems "patater") - on
Strobes on
Confirm 3-8 Echo ready for departure
Hello again, this is now 129.4
129.4, its to go.
You make commence your take-off, winds over 10 knots.
Easy on the brakes. Take it easy, it's gonna roll this time: just hand the power gradually, and it...

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

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Learning To Fly by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Well I started out down a dirty road
Started out all alone
And the sun went down as I crossed the hill
And the town lit up, the world got still

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing

Well the good ol' days may not return
And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn

I'm learning to fly (learning to fly)
But I ain't got wings (learning to fly)
Coming down (learning to fly)
Is the hardest thing (learning to fly)

Well some say life will beat you down
Break your heart, steal your crown
So I've started out for God knows where
I guess I'll know when I get there

I'm learning to fly around the clouds
But what goes up (learning to fly)
must come down (learning to fly)

I'm learning to fly (learning to fly)
but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing

I'm learning to fly (learning to fly)
around the clouds
But what goes up (learning to fly)
Must come down

I'm learning to fly (learning to fly)
(Learning to fly)
I'm learning to fly
(Learning to fly)
(Learning to fly)
(Learning to fly)
(Learning to fly)

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Learn to Fly by the Foo Fighters

Run and tell all of the angels
This could take all night
Think I need a devil to help me get things right
Hook me up a new revolution
Cause this one is a lie
We sat around laughing and watched the last one die

I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for a complication
Looking cause I'm tired of lying
Make my way back home when I learn to fly high

I think I'm done nursing the patience
It can wait one night
I'd give it all away if you give me one last try
We'll live happily ever trapped if you just save my life
Run and tell the angels that everything is alright

I'm looking to the sky to save me

Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for a complication
Looking cause I'm tired of trying
Make my way back home when I learn to fly high
Make my way back home when I learn to. . .

Fly along with me, I can't quite make it alone
Try and make this life my own (and)
Fly along with me, I can't quite make it alone
Try and make this life my own. . .

I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for a complication
Looking cause I'm tired of trying
Make my way back home when I learn to. . .
(repeat x2)

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Learning to Fly by Hilary Duff

In a moment everything can change
Feel the wind on your shoulder
For a minute all the world can wait
Let go of your yesterday

Can you hear it calling?
Can you feel it in your soul?
Can you trust this longing and take control?

[CHORUS]
Fly
Open up the part of you that wants to hide away
You can shine
Forget about the reasons why you can't in life
and start to try 'cus it's your time, time to fly

All your worries, leave them somewhere else
Find a dream you can follow
Reach for something when there's
nothing left and the world's feeling hollow

Can you hear it calling?
Can you feel it in your soul?
Can you trust this longing and take control?

[CHORUS]
Fly
Open up the part of you that wants to hide away
You can shine
Forget about the reasons why you can't in life
and start to try 'cus it's your time, time to fly

And when you're down and feeling low,
just want to run away
Trust yourself and don't give up
You know you better than anyone else

In a moment everything can change
Feel the wind on your shoulder
For a minute all the world can wait
Let go of yesterday

[CHORUS]
Fly
Open up the part of you that wants to hide away
You can shine
Forget about the reasons why you can't in life(can't in life)
and start to try(start to)
Fly
Forget about the reasons why you
can't in life(can't in life)
and start to try (start to try)
'cus it's your time, time to fly
In a moment everything can change

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Learning to Fly by Emerson, Lake & Powell

Jungles where the tigers sleep
The neon glares
And talk is cheap
Stairways that lead to dreams
You turn around
A siren screams

Energy glows in the heart of the city
You stand in the shadows or reach for the sky
This time the promise is not just illusion
I'm heading for glory, I'm learning to fly

Out there you feel the heat
It's face to face, I cross the street
Help me I've done a fare
I need a ride
So take me there

Everything's moving out of the city
They murder with kisses and then wonder why
Everyone's looking out over their shoulder
We've all gotta jump so I'm learning to fly

I see a figure there, look back at me
I stand and stare
Searching for sanity
To break the force of gravity

Learning to fly
Learning to fly
Learning to fly

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Learning How To Fly by Tuck & Patti

When your heart is low feel the breezes blow
It's all right you just take your time
There's no hurry now that you're on your way
When you're learning how to fly

No more wandering 'round, step up off the ground
You will find you can glide on by
There's a magic place that is just for you
When you're learning how to fly

Chorus:
You've always known that this was not your home
You've been longing for that place
Where you would not feel so all alone
Well now that time has come for you to fly away
Just breathe on in then breathe on out
And you'll be on your way

Watch the ocean rise, say your sad good-byes
Don't be shy, go ahead and cry
There's a light to guide and you're really on your way
Now you're learning how to fly

Now you are flying, rising, floating
Sailing on this blissful ocean
Everything you've always wanted now
Learning how to fly

Freedom comes while you are soaring
Far away from cares and longing
Take this moment, open up your eyes
You're learning how to fly

Repeat chorus

You are higher now, feeling lighter now
So much joy, you just have to go
Feel the greatest love that you've ever ever known
When you're learning how to fly

You are higher now, feeling lighter now
So much joy, you just have to go
Feel the greatest love you have ever known
When you're leaning how to fly
Now you're learning how to fly
You are learning how to fly

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"..... you should only change one piece of equipment at a time and then allow plenty of time to get used to it ........ Whatever class of pilot, that advice remains true. ....."

http://flyozone.com/...headlines/19004

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.... even it is a "competition" ,one must not gamble that much on his "precious" life to win it.

http://188.40.246.13...ic.php?p=146502

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... what is the difference between the high performance gliders compared to the entry level?
... this has always been an easy answer; higher performance equals higher pilot workload and higher workload equals higher experience levels. Pilots find this out the hard way if they're flying a glider above their ability the second they hit seriously active air and discover their reactions and inputs are simply not enough. This is not a nice place to be.

http://www.paraglidi...8d1d067#p357193