Top 26 Test Pilot Sayings
#1. 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
#2. On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
Sally Ride
#3. But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.
Alan Shepard
#4. Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.
David Mackay
#5. You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.
Alan Shepard
#6. What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.
Douglas Brinkley
#7. When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident.
Edgar Mitchell
#8. I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.
Elon Musk
#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. 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
#11. As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
Jonathan Winters
#12. Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.
Charles Duke
#13. When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
Wally Schirra
#14. The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.
Nevil Shute
#15. I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.
Alan G. Poindexter
#16. German test pilot Ernst Canter noted in his logbook that while in 1910 he flew at a height of eighty feet, two years later he was ascending to almost 5,000.
Max Hastings
#17. Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
Wally Schirra
#18. 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
#19. Into the darkness with the light of the moon beaming upon me. Bathing in the luminosity of it awakening the demon that is me!
Eve Masters
#20. I love her more than I actually express in words - an irony for a writer - and am every day genuinely amazed I get to spend my life with her.
John Scalzi
#21. A cut. That's what I felt. Words can cut, slice, like a razor.
Megan Miranda
#22. The only contingency he had not learned how to bear was the possibility of his own madness.
Stephen King
#24. Faith means believing in what you do even when it does not bear visible fruit.
J.M. Coetzee
#25. The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.
Rhonda Byrne
#26. A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
Anne Enright
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