GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Betty Skelton

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Receiving my first Medicare card a few months ago was not much of a thrill. I wanted to burn it immediately and go out and buy a Pitts!

Betty Skelton

Quoted in her New York Times obituary, Air and Land Daredevil, Dies at 85. The New York Times, 10 September 2011.

It is not easy to be the best. You must have the courage to bear pain, disappointment, and heartbreak. Our dedication must help lift the other up when one of us is down. You must learn how to face danger and understand fear, yet not be afraid. You must establish your goal, and no matter what deters you along the way, in your every waking moment you must say to yourself, ‘I can do it.’

Betty Skelton

The ‘first lady of aerobatics’ and the ‘fastest woman on Earth’. Quoted in 1993 book Ladybirds II: The Continuing Story of American Women in Aviation.

You consider danger only from the standpoint that it’s up to you to know what you’re doing, to do your best, to be very careful about it and very thorough about it, and learn everything you can about it. No, I never really worried about it, even though I had quite a few close calls. And in those instances you’re so busy, you don't think about it anyway. So I can honestly say I was never really afraid. I’ve never been what I would call afraid. Now, there were a few times perhaps when you were lost in an airplane, you'd be temporarily confused, but not necessarily afraid.

Betty Skelton

First Lady of Firsts, interview by the NASA Oral History Project, Cocoa Beach, Florida, 19 July 1999.

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