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Alone? Is He Alone At Whose Right Side Rides Courage, With Skill Within The Cockpit And Faith Upon The Left? Does Solitude Surround The Brave When Adventure Leads The Way And Ambition Reads The Dials? Is There No Company With Him, For Whom The Air Is Cleft By Daring And The Darkness Made Light By Emprise?

In Honoring The Wright Brothers, It Is Customary And Proper To Recognize Their Contribution To Scientific Progress. But I Believe It Is Equally Important To Emphasize The Qualities In Their Pioneering Life And The Character In Man That Such A Life Produced. The Wright Brothers Balanced Sucess With Modesty, Science With Simplicity. At Kitty Hawk Their Intellects And Senses Worked In Mutual Support. They Represented Man In Balance, And From That Balance Came Wings To Lift A World.

On A Long Flight, After Periods Of Crisis And Many Hours Of Fatigue, Mind And Body May Become Disunited Until At Times They Seem Completely Different Elements, As Though The Body Were Only A Home With Which The Mind Has Been Associated But By No Means Bound. Consciousness Grows Independent Of The Ordinary Senses. You See Without Assistance From The Eyes, Over Distances Beyond The Visual Horizon. There Are Moments When Existence Appears Independent Even Of The Mind. The Importance Of Physical Desire And Immediate Surroundings Is Submerged In The Apprehension Of Universal Values.

In Wilderness I Sense The Miracle Of Life.

If I Had To Choose, I Would Rather Have Birds Than Airplanes.