Quotes About Aviation

All astronauts, even civilians like me without pilot experience, have to learn how to co-pilot a jet called a T-38.

I'm a commercial pilot before I was an actor.

As a kid I wanted to be a pilot.

My 3-year-old daughter told my wife she doesn't think I'm a pilot anymore because I don't fly. That was crushing.

Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting 'Awakening'.

Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.

I think women make better pilots.

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

It's a drag not to have your own plane, man. That way, you could go where you wanna go when you wanna go.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

that plane isn't going to make it

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

Hay cosas que no pueden olvidarse, como el ruido de los aviones o el frío en las manos.

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.

Well, 'aerospace' was really not a name in my young life. Flying airplanes was. And I got my first try at flying - just pure flying - by flying my 'Superman' cape off my daddy's barn when I was about 5 years old.

Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly.