Kindle Notes & Highlights
In spite of his fatigue, he allowed himself to reflect on and be moved by the lines of the Tomcat, evidence of a fighter pilot’s learned narcissistic sense as much as anything else. Where did gloved hands end and sticks and throttles begin? The question was moot.
Who did fighter pilots impress? Boy Scouts and other fighter pilots.
RIOs, Spud claimed, were in the business of predicting pilot moves and preventing pilot errors.
The aviators joked that on the Boat Alert 5 didn’t mean launch in five minutes, but rather five jets had to be moved out of the way to get to the alert bird.
“If you can make a living doing what you love, you don’t have much choice.”
“The Three Lieutenant Rule holds that if three lieutenants congregate, the topic of a fourth lieutenant will always come up,” Fuzzy continued. “Two of them will say the fourth lieutenant is a good guy and the third will say he’s an asshole. It’s simple natural law, as true as rain.”
available fuel determined the “how” of carrier aviation: how many, how fast, how high, how far, and how long.
“There’s never a good time to buy a puppy. You just get one and start taking care of it.”
That’s why you’re bald. Your hair got bored with hanging out with you.”
