Pilots Quotes

The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up.

Fighter pilots rove in the area allotted to them in any way they like, and when they spot an enemy they attack and shoot them down.... Everything else is rubbish.

Whenever you get on the plane, the flight attendant will always tell you the name of your pilot. Like anyone goes, Oh, he's good.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.

Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

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

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.

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

Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey.

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

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

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!

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.

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

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

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

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.