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Video: Why you should be a pilot

By General Aviation News Staff · May 24, 2021 ·

Smitty Smith of FunPlacesToFly.com loves to fly and in his latest video, just a bit over 2 minutes long, he shows you why you should be a pilot as well.

“Leonardo da Vinci once said ‘Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.’ It’s true!” Smitty says.

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  1. Bruce says

    May 24, 2021 at 5:29 pm

    I only wish that, while flying an airplane, that my view were that great. My “sight picture” is a wall of instruments up to nose level.

  2. Stephen Pendergast says

    May 24, 2021 at 1:04 pm

    Quote not from Leonardo directly, but from a bio-documentary “I, Leonardo Da Vinci.” The credits state it was written, produced and narrated by John H. Secondari.
    https://airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-famous-quote-that-da-vinci-never-said/

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