Ernest K. Gann

1910–1991 · American aviator, author and conservationist

Ernest Kellogg Gann was an American airline and wartime pilot. He became one of the best-known writers on flying, through the memoir Fate Is the Hunter (1961) and the novel The High and the Mighty (1953). His 1974 illustrated history Ernest K. Gann’s Flying Circus contains the earliest known form of this fuel maxim.

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“The Only Time an Aircraft Has Too Much Fuel On Board Is When It Is On Fire”

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