Aviation Wisdom From The Past – July 8, 2013

“Robert Novell’s Third Dimension Blog”

Good Morning,

A few words of wisdom from the past to start the new week—-take care, fly safe, and thanks for allowing me to be a part of your week.

Robert Novell

2013

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“North to the Orient”

(1935)

“One could sit still and look at life from the air; that was it. And I was conscious again of the fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes – speed, accessibility, and convenience – and will not change as they change. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. What motion there was took on a slow grace, like slow-motion pictures which catch the moment of outstretched beauty that one cannot see in life itself, so swiftly does it move. And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye which peers down to the still world below the choppy waves – it will always remain magic.”