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Quotes About Piloting

I wish you'd told me I was going to be piloting a Yellow Submarine." "To what end? It would only have worried you. These DSVs are idiotproof.
~ Douglas Preston
I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.
~ Ron Davies
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly
~ Harry Reasoner
I really love flying, but it's really nice to jump on a plane, sit back, and let someone else do the heavy lifting, but flying is my main passion for sure.
~ Dierks Bentley
Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.
~ Jonathan Agnew
She doesn't know geometry. Just enough to pilot a ship in and out of the folds." "Only that much?" I should have stuck to advanced finger-painting and never let Dad lure me into trying for an education. There isn't any end—the more you learn, the more you need to learn.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
So when a Vietnam-era fighter pilot says he flew up north, that means he ripped off the front gate of hell and flew into the deadliest air-defense system ever devised.
~ Robert Coram
After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.
~ John Hartford
One of the pilots asked Mr. Smith if he liked his business, and Mr. Smith said, Sure. Sure I like it. It's nice being the only sound nut in a hatful of cracked ones. ---Stewardess to Cecelia Brady
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.
~ John Rhys-Davies
You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
~ Tammy Duckworth
I know a lot of people in the aviation business, particularly ones who will fly to places where your boots get dirty when you get out of the airplane.
~ Erik Prince
I love flying.
~ Adam Kinzinger
I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.
~ Dexter Holland
Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.
~ Doug Liman
Era una sensazione piacevole quella di scivolare a volte da soli sul'acqua ed essere battellieri e piloti di se stessi
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unfortunately the dogs misunderstood their orders and, instead of piloting us, dashed off on their own. We saw them like specks in the distance in the direction of the old seal crack.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Later in life, I'd like to end up doing air races.
~ Jimmy Graham
And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.
~ Treat Williams
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft
~ Jim Lovell
After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.
~ John Hartford
Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.
~ Hunter Hayes
Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
~ Adolf Galland
The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.
~ Cory Lidle