Fate is the Hunter (book)

[Don Oxygen]

If you have not read it you must read.
Widely considered to be one of if not the best aviation book ever written.
$19

 

[WRX]

I read it over 20 years ago, the phrases and descriptiveness of some passages I will never forget.

 

[Don Oxygen]

Give me your favorite.

 

[WRX]

From memory, he was waiting to depart somewhere in South America. “It was raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock.”

 

[WRX]

Tied with “We have urinated on the principles of science.”

 

[Don Oxygen]

“KEIM peers down at me from his upper bunk Acropolis, wigwags an eyebrow, and snorts, “It’s raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock.”

Excerpt From
Fate is the Hunter
Ernest K. Gann

 

[WRX]

Memory didn’t fade too much.

 

[Don Oxygen]

“They must never, for fear of official ridicule, admit other than to themselves, which they all do, that some totally unrecognizable genie has once again unbuttoned his pants and urinated on the pillar of science.”

Excerpt From
Fate is the Hunter
Ernest K. Gann

 

[Major Cong]

Outstanding book.