Quotes About Flight

I flew an H3 Sea King. The most famous Sea King is Marine One.

Flight without feathers is not easy.

I believe I am blessed with the ability to fall asleep just about anytime, anywhere. I can sleep on a flight, on a couch, and even on a bus.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

I don't know of any issues associated with alcohol before flight.

As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It's the most critical part of the flight, the ascent.

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.

I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.

I've spent many a long flight talking to flight attendants, trying to understand what kind of employment experience underlies such a consistent lack of concern for customers.

I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and I have a book with me.

If it's an international flight, I always like to wear a sheet mask.

I was the most emotional of the flight directors. Space really got me all honked up.

I was so scared the first time I flew the flight attendant called me Whitey.

Most of my family and friends are very familiar with the human space flight program and with the excitement of becoming an astronaut.

It's very nice when you're checking onto a flight and the person behind the desk suddenly upgrades your seat for you and then hands you back the boarding pass and says, 'It's my favorite movie.'

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

What I do on international flights is watch crappy, sappy love movies... Sometimes they're so bad, it's laughable. It kills time.

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.