Parachuting Club of Turku - Includes static line and tandem course information, photos and contacts.
Free Flight Team Finland - Supports national teams at championship competitions, organizes competitions and educational meetings and promotes free flight model aviation. Includes photos and competition results.
F3J WC 2002 Photo Gallery - World Championships in Lappeenranta. Soaring people, places, and models pictures.
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Aviation When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Aviation
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Aviation I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Aviation
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Aviation The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Aviation
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Aviation "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Aviation
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Aviation Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Aviation
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Aviation "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Aviation
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Aviation "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Aviation
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Aviation I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Aviation
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aviation They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Aviation
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aviation "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Aviation
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Aviation In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Aviation
