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There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

Airplane!

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Topic

Flying

Speaker

Elaine Dickinson

Actor

Julie Hagerty

Source

Airplane!

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Airplane! Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. Paramount Pictures/Howard W. Koch Productions, 1980.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew-
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee, Jr

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Topic

Flying

Author

John Gillespie Magee, Jr

Source

High Flight

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Magee, John Gillespie, Jr. "High Flight." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12 Nov. 1941.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

Orson Welles

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Topic

Flying

Speaker

Orson Welles

Source

The Times

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Welles, Orson. Interview to celebrate his 70th birthday. The Times, 6 May 1985.

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

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Topic

Flying Taking risks

Author

Amelia Earhart

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Earhart, Amelia. Letter to George Putnam. 2 July 1937.

Off we go into the wild blue yonder,
Climbing high into the sun.

Robert MacArthur Crawford

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Topic

Flying

Author

Robert MacArthur Crawford

Source

The Air Force Song

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Crawford, Robert. The U.S. Air Force. 1947.

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest 57 seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.

Orville Wright

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Topic

Flying Moments of discovery

Author

Orville Wright

Medium

Telegram

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wright, Orville. Telegram to Reverend Milton Wright. 17 Dec. 1903.

Current Citation

Wright, Orville. Quoted in To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers, written by Wendie C. Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002.