Flying Quotes - Page 34

• If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

  Robert Crandall

  Giving Up, September 11, Want

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• I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Wish, Air Power, Aviation

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• Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Airplane, Air Power, Pilots

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• One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have to meet the irregularities of the wind, when soaring in the air, can only be learnt by being in the air itself. . . . The only way which leads us to a quick development in human flight is a systematic and energetic practice in actual flying experiments.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Air, Wind, Practice

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• Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.

  Neil Armstrong

  Unique, Machines, Crafts

  "Landing on the Moon: Apollo 11, The Untold Story". www.popularmechanics.com. May 27, 2009.

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• Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have been inside a really thick one for a few minutes. In the very early days of aviation, 1912 to be correct, I emerged from a cloud upside down, much to my discomfort, as I didn't know how to get right way up again. I found out somehow, or I wouldn't be writing this.

  Charles Rumney Samson

  Writing, Clouds, Practice

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• There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Airplane, Two, Boss

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You're not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems.

  Bernard Ziegler

  Jobs, Hero, Adventure

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• There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The controls are jammed or something really important has fallen off the plane, and these guys are talking like magpies; their lives are flashing past their eyes, and they're flailing around in the cockpit. It just doesn't happen. You don't have time to talk. You're too damn busy trying to get out of the problem you're in to talk or ricochet around the cockpit. Or think about what happened the night after your senior prom.

  Robin Olds

  Senior, Eye, Mean

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• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

  Bob Hoover

  Inspirational, Life, Airplane

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• Airshow flying is tough, it's even tougher if you do something stupid. Don't do nuthin dumb!

  Ralph Royce

  Stupid, Dumb, Tough

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• I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

  William Langewiesche

  Airplane, Simple, Hunting

  William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon

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• And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on the ground like a frightened canary every time there was a cloud in the sky. If a pilot showed an obvious preference for flying only in the best conditions he soon found himself looking for work. This was the way of his life and he had always ascended when others had found excuse to keep their feet on the ground.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Clouds, Sky, Feet

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• Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Aviation, Great Aviation, Relaxed

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• I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet).

  Mary Schiavo

  Safety, Way, Aviation

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• In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.

  Tom Gross

  Successful, Safety, Variables

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• Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Travel, Land, Promise

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Dream, Airplane, Reality

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

  Beano Cook

  Heart, Two, Bats

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• A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Dream, Clouds, Wind

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• I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country.

  Jimmy Page

  Country, Cities, Drunk

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• We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.

  Emma Goldman

  Hate, People, Joy

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.377, University of Illinois Press

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• I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. If you look at it logically, it's something that was drilled into your head when you were a small child. It certainly was drilled into mine at that age. And you really can't be responsible when you are a kid for what adults put into your head.

  Bill Maher

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2005.

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• The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.

  William Henry Pickering

  Ideas, Two, Mind

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• I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Firsts, Building, Planes

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