Four quotes to start this one! But still receptive to new ones, if you have one in mind.
Pick or submit your favorite!
TECH_AIRCRAFT_RADAR
Quote #1:
Gagarin's death was shameful not just because of the loss of a national hero in muddled circumstances, but because of the dangerous flaws revealed in the Soviet military technology of his time. Obviously their radar systems were not capable of simultaneous mapping of aircraft heights and positions, nor of positively identifying one target from another. The implications of this were highly alarming.
-Jamie Doran
Quote #2:
In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.
-Dennis Quaid
Quote #3:
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
-Freeman Dyson
Quote #4:
I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to “see” things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses.
-Robert Hanbury Brown
Pick or submit your favorite!
TECH_AIRCRAFT_RADAR
Quote #1:
Gagarin's death was shameful not just because of the loss of a national hero in muddled circumstances, but because of the dangerous flaws revealed in the Soviet military technology of his time. Obviously their radar systems were not capable of simultaneous mapping of aircraft heights and positions, nor of positively identifying one target from another. The implications of this were highly alarming.
-Jamie Doran
Quote #2:
In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.
-Dennis Quaid
Quote #3:
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
-Freeman Dyson
Quote #4:
I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to “see” things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses.
-Robert Hanbury Brown
