Quotes About Aviation

There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that a Biafran plane landed in another African country, and the pilot and all of the crew came out, and there was not a white man among them. The people of this other country—which is a stooge of France—couldn't comprehend a plane being landed without any white people. They said, "Where is the pilot? Where are the white people?" They arrested the crew, presuming there had been a rebellion in the air!

Becoming a flight attendant was at once rebellion and escape

Drones were such a guy thing, she thought. It was downright chromosomal.

She had been told over the years by pilots, usually when they were having a drink, that the last words of most captains before their aircraft augured into the side of the mountain or broke apart before breaking the plane of the sea were these: MOTHER. MOMMY. MOM.

It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream.

Mississippi State University and other institutions are established leaders in the development and integration of unmanned aerial systems.

I like the mode of business of aviation. It's a risky business with difficulties which you can fill with innovative ideas and different things.

My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.

After the war, my father, Bernard, left the Army Air Forces to fly for Trans World Airlines. But after I was born, he retired from commercial flying to be with my mother, Anne, and me. I was born in Kansas City, Mo., but we left when I was 6 months old.

I don't play a lot of games. I play flight simulators, mostly.

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

To climb into an airplane and motor up by yourself, it is just amazing.

One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

No complaints. The kid is back in the saddle," Jackson said, sitting down. "You should have been up in the Tomcat with me last week. Oh, man, I'm finally back in the groove. I was hassling with a guy in an A-4 playing aggressor, and I ruined his day. It was so fine." He grinned like a lion surveying a herd of crippled antelope. "I'm ready!" "When

pilot might think a 1-percent chance of being shot down on a given mission acceptable, then realize that fifty such missions made it a 40-percent chance.

when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.

Our altitude has stabilised at 37,000 feet again.

Pete makes his pan call to Melbourne Air Traffic Control:

There is never any suggestion that the automation can fail and pilots do not train to address this abnormality.

That's when the British captain, Eric Moody, made one of the most famous understatements in the history of aviation. "Ladies and gentlemen," he told the passengers, "this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four of the engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.

pilot crackers

Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

I don't want to hear from Traffic that my husband was hotdogging the skyways in his minichopper. You won't. I bribe too well.