From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.

It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.