Quotes About Test Pilots

#1. Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

Alan Shepard

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#7. Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.

Suzanne Collins

#8. When it comes to depravity, if you want to know, theirs and ours are no different.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

Buzz Aldrin

#10. In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

William Ralph Inge

#11. The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the staunchest friend of beleaguered Israel, and the greatest promoter of global individual freedom in our recent memory.

Victor Davis Hanson

#12. He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

Gough Whitlam

#13. At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

Igor Sikorsky

#14. People who aren't afraid to live aren't afraid to die.

Carol Fiore

#15. You hate him worse than me, you viper,' he whispered as the stimulant cleared his brain.
'Aye, lord, but here's the oddity of it - I love him too.' Morgan replied, her eyes void of all emotion.

M.K. Hume

#16. The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.

J. August Richards

#17. The psalms, like no other literature, lift us to a position where we can commune with God, capturing a sense of the greatness of his kingdom and a sense of what living with him for eternity will be like.

Gordon Fee

#18. Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling.

Robert Kiyosaki

#19. The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

Nevil Shute

#20. We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.

Gherman Titov

#21. The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules.

Robert Kiyosaki