Quotes About Aviation

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'

One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.

If the airline industry were to evolve a common fitness standard for both male and female employees, that would not just be acceptable, it would be entirely desirable.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.

I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.

Back in the early '70s, there were two airlines that flew puddle jumpers from the Sarasota-Bradenton airport to Atlanta: National and Eastern, neither of which exists today.

I have always been an aviation nerd. I read the magazines.

I'm not a nervous flier. I realize it's still the safest form of travel.

I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.

I'm not saying that people should stop flying. I'm just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

You never forget the airplane you soloed.

I want to take TSA to the next level.

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.

If we want to avert an impending calamity and a state of things which may transform this globe into an inferno, we should push the development of flying machines and wireless transmission of energy without an instant's delay and with all the power and resources of the nation.

the guy said industry slang for flight attendant was Space Waitress. Or Air Mattress.

Then since the autopilot will have it trimmed out to fly in a straight line, the glider will begin what the pilot calls a controlled descent. That kind of a descent, I tell him, would be nice for a change.

The security guy asked my name address and phone number, and then he asked me what was the difference between a condom and a cockpit.