"Being a fighter pilot -- for that matter, simply taking off in a single-engine jet fighter of the Century series, such as an F-102, or any of the military's other marvelous bricks with fins on them -- presented a man, on a perfectly sunny day, with more ways to get himself killed than his wife and children could imagine in their wildest fears."
-- Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff.
(thanks to dighton for digging this up.)
Great get...suggest we start e-mailing it to lots of media and news sources...