Top 39 Quotes About Flying Pilots
#1. Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
#2. As one veteran Russian pilot dryly told me:We have to be very careful flying in the clouds. Around here they are full of rocks.
Alan Hinkes
#3. Not until the space shuttle started flying did NASA concede that some astronauts didn't have to be fast-jet pilots. And at that point, sure enough, women started becoming astronauts.
Henry Spencer
#4. If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
Meister Eckhart
#5. Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.
Alan Bean
#6. In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
Neil Armstrong
#7. Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
Neil Armstrong
#8. Even though I'm a family guy, there is something that feels really beautiful about eliminating all children from flying. So, children have to fly on child-only planes. And the pilots have to be children as well.
Jay R. Ferguson
#9. I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.
Carol Berg
#10. I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.
Linda Finch
#11. In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.
Mary Garden
#12. Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey.
Bill Engvall
#13. We are all guilty of the good we did not do
Voltaire
#14. In India, a land of few safe assumptions, chronic uncertainty was said to have helped produce a nation of quick-witted, creative problem-solvers. Among
Katherine Boo
#15. Passed to the pilots flying at NORAD's direction.By 10:45 there was, however, another set of fighters circling Washington that had entirely different rules of engagement.These
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#16. Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.
Ernest K. Gann
#17. The best way to trick yourself into actually feeling these positive feelings, even if you are not feeling too good is to use your memories, fantasies, dreams and desires judiciously.
Malti Bhojwani
#18. The problem is, first take your eyes off the problem and focus on a solution.
Anthony Liccione
#19. Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.
Mark Kelly
#20. We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts.
Robert Crippen
#21. I want a big fat woman with meat shaking on her bones.
Chick Willis
#23. And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.
Story Musgrave
#24. I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.
Hugh Shelton
#25. Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.
Charles Lindbergh
#26. As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.
David M. Brown
#27. Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Neil Armstrong
#28. I saw 'Sleeping Beauty' when I was, like, 6 years old at the Mercury Theatre. Then, when I came to Disney, I was in the company of these wonderful artists. People like Glen Keane, like Mark Henn, who were brilliant animators who could really bring these things to life.
John Musker
#29. Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.
David Icke
#30. ...I stand looking at the aircraft, trying in vain to remember all the theoretical lore which i was supposed to have absorbed in school. The effort is discouraging.
Ernest K. Gann
#31. I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.
Eugene Cernan
#32. Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.
Calvin Coolidge
#33. There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.
Frank Luntz
#35. While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.
Gordon Cooper
#36. I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.
Florence Green
#37. If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
Bob Hoover
#38. Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
Barry Goldwater
#39. WE MUST GIVE NOT ONLY WHAT WE HAVE; WE MUST ALSO GIVE WHAT WE ARE.
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