“Challenge and perfection is the greatest gift of life. Embrace it and use it well. To turn your back on the challenge of perfection is to close the door on your spirit, your freedom … your very existence.”
Betty Skelton, quoted in 2011 book Betty Skelton First Lady of Firsts by Henry Holden. An amazing aerobatic pilot, she also held many speed and altitude records. Her Pitts Special airplane now hangs inverted, forever looping, in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Here’s its final climb:
