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Motormouse

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the 'Motormouse' easter head scratcher (to take your mind off all those chocolate eggs) so...........

Who said.....
1)Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?
2)We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the earth.
3)You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
4)Gliders, sailplanes, they are wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
5)Where am I?
6)The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.
7)The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.
8) just made a balls of it, old boy. That's all there was to it.
9)I want to go in the air, not a bathtub.
10) A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.
11) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
12)If the engine stops for any reason, you are due to tumble, and that's all there is to it!
13)The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down
14)I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying


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Pete
 
Hi MM, good one!

Hmmm damn hard.....

But I'll chip my penny-worth in, this is purely guess work and no Googling (honest!)

1) No idea in flying terms?? But Charles Bronson-Great Escape?
2) Neil Armstrong/Buzz Aldrin?
3) One of the Wright brothers?
4) Hanna Reitsch?
5) Every new PPL on their first solo?? :d
6) Bomber pilot in WWII?
7) One of the WWI aces, Cudden, Rickenbacker, Immelman, Goering?
8) Dougie Bader, on loosing legs in crash landing?
9) Someone not wanting to fly in a ballon/airship but an aeroplane?
10) An airline president/owner eg Pan-Am, Freddie Laker, Richard Branson?
11) Could take this either way, but if bad, maybe a Hollywood starlet Mae West, Marilyn Moroe etc etc?
12) Every flying instructor sending off their new PPL student on their first solo? :d
13) Pierre Closterman, John Wray, Urban Drew?
14) A good guess maybe on Gary Powers?

I bet I get none right, but as you say gets the ol' grey matter going.

Thanks for taking the time to put it together!

Cheers Shessi
 
How about:

1) Alan Shepard

2) William Anders

3) Amelia Earhart

4) Neil Armstrong

5) Charles Lindbergh

6) Sir Charles Kingsford Smith

7) Manfred von Richthofen

8) Douglas Bader

9) A. Scott Crossfield (quoted in the Washington Post as having said this the day before his fatal flight)

10) William B. Stout (Designer of the Ford Tri-Motor)

11) Al Gore

12) Clyde Cessna

13) Chuck Yeager

14) Gary Powers

Isn't Google a wonderful thing :jump:
 
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