Quotes About Aviation

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

He imagines the plane exploding as it touches down, ignited by one of its glints, in a ball of red flame shadowed in black like you see on TV all the time, and he is shocked to find within himself, imagining this, not much emotion, just a cold thrill at being a witness, a kind of bleak wonder at the fury of chemicals, and relief that he hadn't been on the plane himself but was instead safe on this side of the glass, with his faint pronged sense of doom.

FAR 91.21 – You must determine that the iPad, as a portable electronic device, does not cause interference in the airplane's communication or navigation equipment.

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

The best pilots usually have the most unflattering nicknames. The pilots I know say they don't generally have much confidence in anyone with a call sign like Maverick or Viper. If you meet one named Outhouse or Dumpster Diver, however, it's a safe bet he's good to go.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.

A free ride and free food are two of the three things no pilot ever turns down.

The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.

They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I insist that my flight stop. Preferably at an airport.

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!

It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground.

The Phantom was the heaviest fighter around.

You could, he believed, divide the combat wing commanders into three categories; those who wanted to make general, those who wanted to make Ace, and those who wanted to protect their pilots. The truly exceptional ones wanted to do all three in reverse order.

You know what we call B-52s?" "BUFFs." "Yes Sir. Big ugly fat fuckers.

I'm not a ranger, I'm a pilot.