Paul Tibbets quotes
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“A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast... We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall.”
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“I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night.”
-- Paul TibbetsSource : "Hiroshima bomb pilot dies aged 92", news.bbc.co.uk. November 1, 2007.
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“I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.”
-- Paul Tibbets
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“Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.”
Source : Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton (2011). “Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings”, p.130, Open Road Media
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“To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.”
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Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
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