Pierre Clostermann Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: February 28, 1921 - March 22, 2006
Birthday: February 28
Death: March 22
And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a great sweep of the wrist, dropped him on the ground like a cut flower. As always, I carefully cleared the engine, turned off all the switches one by one, removed the straps, the wires and the tubes which tied me to him, like a child to his mother. And when my waiting pilots and my mechanics saw my downcast eyes and my shaking shoulders, they understood and returned to the dispersal in silence.
topic: Mother, Children, Flower, Cockpit, Turned Off
