Theorem: There are no accidents and no fatal flaws in the machines; there are only pilots with the wrong stuff. Corollary: no single factor ever killed a pilot; there was always a chain of mistakes.
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Once the theorem and the corollary were understood, the Navy’s statistics about one in every four Navy aviators dying meant nothing. The figures were averages, and applied to those with average stuff. From “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe
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Replying to @Jed_Trott
Yeah in actual combat, in practice, even in day to day life they were supposedly always concerned with having the “right stuff”.
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_
This is surprising to me because I would have thought a dogfight was like wrestling in which mistake can lead to loss.
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I think there was a difference between practice dog fights and actual dog fights but still, as long as you stayed alive and went back up you still sortof had “the right stuff”. I’m only on the first couple of chapters. Great book and theme so far though.
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