Quotes About Aviation

When landing the J-3 Cub, the proper technique is for the tail wheel to touch the runway a millisecond before the main wheels touch. So before landing the pilot must raise the nose of the plane, which blocks his forward vision. He now must gauge his distance above the ground, and his location on the runway, by again using the side windows as he floats on down. After touching down he will again be blind to the front. After coming to a stop the back-and-forth taxiing begins again.

Auto rotation is practiced over and over when learning to fly helicopters. It is the prime life-saving maneuver, and it is an enormous amount of fun to do. To accomplish a perfect auto rotation, landing like a feather and right on the mark, is another pure joy of flying. So if you lose your only engine while flying, hope you are in a helicopter rather than an airplane. Your odds of a safe landing are infinitely greater.

Flying a helicopter is like flying a magic carpet. It's the most fun in all aviation.

The words of his Zen Buddhist flight instructor echoed in his head: You are a leaf on the wind.

It sucked, but it was way cool at the same time, Gazzy said. I felt like the Blue Angels! Yeah, except the blue Angels are an extremely well funded, well equipped, well trained, well fed, and no doubt squeaky-clean group of crack navy pilots, I said. And we're a bunch of unfunded, unequipped, semitrained, not nearly well fed enough, and filthy mongrel avian-human hybrids. But other than that, it's exactly the same.

Fang looked at the newest bird kid. Dylan was an inch or two taller than he was, and somewhat heavier built, though he still had the long, lean look of a human-avian hybrid-you couldn't make bricks fly.

It's a baby plane," Angel whispered when we first got inside the dollhouse-like interior. "It's going to grow up to be a seven forty-seven someday.

We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.

This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back.

I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.

Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation - especially in its military aspects.

We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

The sheer number of facts that are unknown about what happened when Malaysia 370 disappeared is quite staggering.

Flying is the best possible thing for women.

Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.

It was like I need something else in my life, and that's when I kind of went back to my childhood interest in aviation and aerospace, and I just started flying.

My mother was a stay-at-home mum and my father was an RAF pilot.

The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know of any pilots that don't have a self-interest in staying alive.

klappt ihr Notizbuch zu und schaut aus dem runden Flugzeugfenster. Unter ihnen glitzert das weiche Abendlicht der untergehenden Sonne auf dem Atlantik. In wenigen Minuten werden sie in New York landen. Das hat der Pilot vorhin durchgesagt. Sprotte schnallt sich an und weckt den Siebzehnjährigen neben ihr. »Aufwachen, Fred, wir sind gleich da.«

Boys can't be stewardesses, and girls can't be pilots.

The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.