3 Quotes by Gavin Lyall

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    One of these days I would give Pratt and Whitney back this engine and they could send it round airports as an advertisement, wearing a little brass plate reading This engine actually worked in this condition thus enabling Bill Cary to work in his condition. If you, too, are an idiot, P & W engines may save you from yourself.

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    Or perhaps – the secret of life is to choose your risks?

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    You never know about the deaths you didn’t die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn’t happen. It’s a warm, cosy feeling. It’s the way the airlines fly.

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