Pilots Quotes - Page 3

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

I am the best bodyguard, because I'll take a bullet, I'll take a stab wound, I'll take a hit upside the head; I'm like a kamikaze pilot.

An evangelist no more imposes his views on others than a pilot imposes his views on his passengers when he lands a plane on a runway. I bet the passengers are glad!

Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.

When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

I shall never forget my admiration for that German pilot, who single handed, fought seven of us for ten minutes. I saw him go into a fairly steep dive and so I continued to watch, and then saw the triplane hit the ground and disappear into a thousand fragments, for it seemed to me that it literally went into powder.

While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.