Aviation Quotes - Page 7

Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me.

These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

I counted them all out and I counted them all back.

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

Height gives you the initiative.

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.

Aviators live by hours, not by days.

It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!

I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.

I think the first what would happen in the immediate wake of a hard Brexit is a lack of confidence in UK economy. Business is already telling me that they need a year or so to adjust to what is going to change in March 2019. Without a deal, tariffs would immediately kick in and we would need all the physical attributes of a customs border. And that is just the trade aspect. Imagine what would happen if, from one day to the next, we had no aviation agreement or no agreements for dealing with security across Europe.

It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle.

This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.

When asked by someone how much money flying takes: Why, all of it!

The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

That's what we're trained to do.