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Tom Tallerico
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Ava disappeared down the hall. Mac rose and got himself a glass of water. He needed something stronger, but it wasn’t the time. He returned to the living room as Ava emerged from the hall. She held out a black velvet pouch. “What is it?” he
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“Hotdogging at supersonic speeds typically brought out the rascal or the imp in a flier. But Armstrong was neither. He was a quiet man—reticent to the point of opacity. He suffered small talk grudgingly, he laughed genuinely, though not often, and he got lost in his work with a silence and a laser-like focus. He also seemed to some to be a very haunted man.”
― Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story
― Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story
“I’d never been comfortable with the concept of student deferments for the draft. I couldn’t understand why writing a term paper on Chaucer kept you out of the army, but working at the lumberyard didn’t. It seemed an undemocratic system designed by congressmen and senators to keep their own children—and those of their donors—out of harm’s way. If the war was worth fighting, why didn’t everyone have to share the risk?”
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
“I was born in 1948, only forty-five years after that first flight, and even as a young schoolboy it occurred to me that we were only about the third generation in all of human history who had the means to take off and fly freely over the earth in any direction, and it seemed incredible to me that more people didn’t want to do it.”
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
“A fellow journalist I knew once said that a great city should ideally be a place where every neighborhood might serve as a stage set for an opera. No matter which way you turn you’re presented with some kind of charm or grandeur, regardless of whether the area is poor or wealthy. Paris has that quality for me, and so does New Orleans. Both places are also endlessly walkable, another prime attraction. No cab required.”
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
“Today’s lesson: weight, horsepower, elevation, pressure altitude, wing area, and temperature conspire and come up with absolute limits, and no amount of wishing or having lived a clean life will affect the numbers. The laws of physics don’t respect those romantic motion-picture forces that propel airplanes over telephone lines and the rooftops of barns with inches to spare. Nature is indifferent, so if you happen to notice it’s real hot outside and your tanks are full, you should probably get out your flight computer.”
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
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