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Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes - Page 2

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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 through the clean air, watching the earth below.

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 through the clean air, watching the earth below.

Eddie Rickenbacker
Thinking, Clouds, Air

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

Eddie Rickenbacker
Military, Enemy, Rubbish

The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

Eddie Rickenbacker
Fighting, Vanity, Quality
Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

Eddie Rickenbacker
Sports, Military, Fighting

And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be spoiled either by his successes or by the generous congratulations of his comrades. If he were capable of being spoiled he would not have had the character to have won continuous victories, for the smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

Eddie Rickenbacker
Congratulations, Character, Fighting
Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

Eddie Rickenbacker
Air, Wings, Next

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
Letting Go, Jobs, Mistake

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