Pilots Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Cornelia Fort

  Women, Another Chance, Aviation

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• To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality.

  Louise Thaden

  Children, Women, Confused

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.92, University of Arkansas Press

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• I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be.

  Nicole Malachowski

  Jobs, Women, Air

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• She's decisive, she's aggressive, she's proven she's capable with high-performance jets. We look for people with the capability to think on their feet and to be able to lead a team of people. We look for the best pilots out there, and if they happen to be women, great, but we're just looking for the best.

  David Leestma

  Team, Thinking, Feet

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• I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

  Trevor Baylis

  Ideas, Energy, Gadgets

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• Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Airplane, Men, Feet

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• Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.

  Zoroaster

  Spiritual, Heaven, Deeds

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• Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.

  Michael Parfit

  Numbers, Air, Track

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• Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, Choices, World

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.835, Aum Publications

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• The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.

  Seumas Milne

  Air, Two, Silence

  " The innocent dead in a coward's war" by Seumas Milne, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2001.

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• My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

  Robyn Carr

  Thank You, Husband, Men

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• I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to a battleship with 400 kilos of explosives in the cockpit. Of course it is true that the pilot would be killed, but everything would blow up, and that's what counts.

  Jules Vedrines

  Blow, Sky, Blue

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Airplane, Flying, Air Power

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• At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Engineering, Tests, Aviation

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• I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Feet, Giving, Bird

  The CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2008.

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• A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  War, Fall, Two

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• The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

  Douglas Bader

  Successful, Fire, Target

  Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.17, Pen and Sword

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• The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for thousands of these unmanned aircraft in use years from now, the standards for pilot training need to be set high to ensure that those on the ground and other users of the airspace are not put in jeopardy.

  Mark Rosenker

  Years, Training, Needs

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• Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

  Douglas Bader

  Strong, Wings, Needs

  Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.22, Pen and Sword

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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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• I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone

  Philippe Perrin

  War, Involved, Zone

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• For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.

  Beryl Markham

  Wind, Law, Understanding

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.17, Open Road Media

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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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• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Want, Hanoi, Jane

  "The Search for Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, www.psywarrior.com.

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• With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Twilight, Eight, Three

  "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2, ABC’s RED WIDOW, the Status of AKA JESSICA JONES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 14, 2012.

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