Murphy’s laws origin
The following article was excerpted from The Desert Wings
March 3, 1978
Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air...
Optimists and Pessimists
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
— George Bernard Shaw
Ever growing price
"In the year 2054, the entire defence budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force...
Legendary Sikorsky
"The helicopter approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet."
Igor Sikorsky
Moon or not
For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.
— Richard Nixon, 1969.
Black box stuff
If black boxes survive air crashes — why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
— George Carlin
