Words of aeronautic wisdom

Thoughts and wit on flying (particularly military flying), via Blogatelle. An excerpt:

If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it’s probably a helicopter and therefore unsafe.
When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.
Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.
The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: “Why is it doing that?”, “Where are we?” and “Oh, shit!”