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Quotes About Pilots

As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.
~ Randy West
All I know is I've had an overall deal with Warner Brothers Television since the 'Smallville' pilot; that was my first pilot for Warner Brothers Television. I have to do pilots for them, but I get a chance to spend time and find the people that work best with me.
~ David Nutter
Es cierto que hay cientos de pilotos que vuelan sin temor, en medio de oscuras noches y sobre kilómetros de neblina, pero su tranquilidad no proviene del saber y del control sino de una fe ciega en ese conjunto de piezas de metal que
~ Richard Bach
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
~ Epictetus
Motorcyclists, like pilots, put the priority on avoiding accidents rather than attempting to survive accidents. The energy is focused on doing everything right, rather than on surviving the crash. That's a significant difference that motor vehicle safety experts in the U.S. seem unable to grasp. The NHTSA approach has always focused on crash padding, rather than on driver skill.
~ David L. Hough
A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.
~ Carl Jung
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.
~ Tim Holden
everybody knew the only thing that made Goss more miserable than pilots was pilots having fun.
~ Jason Fry
They had to reach out through coded channels to Snap Wexley, Jess Pava, and the other pilots Leia had sent to gather the New Republic's surviving commanders.
~ Jason Fry
I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.
~ Maggie Rowe
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
The next time American pilots bailed out into the hands of Communist troops was in Korea about five years later, and the reception this time was imprisonment and torture, which makes the level of wartime cooperation all the more amazing and the decline of the relationship into enmity all the more shocking and costly.
~ Richard Bernstein
estaban locos por los aeroplanos, y soñaban con ser pilotos.
~ Ken Follett
All told, Finnish fighter pilots shot down 240 confirmed Red aircraft, against the loss of 26 of their own planes. It was standard practice to send at least one interceptor up to meet every Russian bomber sortie within range. Not infrequently the appearance of a single Fokker caused an entire squadron of SB-2s to jettison its bombs into the snow and turn tail.
~ William R. Trotter
For I dipp'd into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dewFrom the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.
~ D. J. Cotrona
I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.
~ Richard Bach
When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. So when 'Weeds' took off, I was so happy. Especially as I was just a guest star in the pilot. But once it got picked up, they made me a regular cast member.
~ Kevin Nealon
So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.
~ Martin Feldstein
The founders of Draken and the senior management team all fly one of the positions in the Black Diamond jet team.
~ Jared Isaacman
Yes, yes, I know they make better pilots than men do; their reactions are faster, and they can tolerate more gee. They can get in faster, get out faster, and thereby improve everybody's chances, yours as well as theirs. But that still doesn't make it fun to be slammed against your spine at ten times your proper weight. But
~ Robert A. Heinlein
An infantryman can fight only if somebody else delivers him to his zone; in a way I suppose pilots are just as essential as we are.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
KRULAK and Dyer wrote the first textbook for Marine helicopter pilots and war planners. Usually doctrine and tactics are developed after a weapon is available, but Krulak believed that doctrine should drive, not follow, the development of the helicopter. He
~ Robert Coram
The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
~ Al McGuire