Pilots Quotes - Page 4

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

The way an aircraft flies - that is the way the strategy works. Most of the time the plane is on autopilot, and does a great job of flying itself. Every once in a while it is necessary for the pilot to jump in.

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot.

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.

The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.

What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn to become a pilot is to learn - not to let oneself fly too slowly. Not to let oneself turn without accelerating. Not to cross the controls. Not to do this, and not to do that. . . . To pilot is negation.

We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service.

"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.

Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.