The Earth down there, that, that—s your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter.✈ Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.✈ Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.” » Alexander Chase✈ I’ve never seen an airplane yet that can read the type ratings on your pilot’s license.✈ In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours – one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.” » Neil McElroy✈ If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I?” » E.Y. » Woody✈ The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. 'If God had meant man to fly, he'd have given him lots more money.Flying isn't dangerous. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.” » Bill Gates✈ Man is not as good as a black box for certain specific things. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” » Douglas Adams✈ I was always afraid of dying. It’s the law. I don’t believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.✈ Map reading was not required. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.✈ Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. Do better pre-flights.✈ In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. Not to do this, and not to do that. This fact ‘concentrates the mind wonderfully’, as Dr Johnson remarked of a man who was to be hanged in a fortnight.✈ Sometimes things are bigger than you, and the best you can hope for is to keep your wings level and have patience and a little luck.✈ Accuracy means something to me. » Cockpit crew in the movie Airplane.✈ Basic Flying Rules Try to stay in the middle of the air. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, ‘Ooh, hey, I can do that.’ There’s only a few people that have flown in early 1908. “Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "

✈ The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Olga knows the way. " After you know what to look for you see things that you did not notice when you did not know exactly what to look for.✈ An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it’ll never surprise a good one.✈ The quality of the box matters little. » Ernest K. Gann✈ Airspeed: Speed of an airplane. In my profession life itself depends on accuracy.✈ Rule books are paper – they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.✈ Pilots take no special joy in walking. » Ed Thompson✈ When in doubt, hold on to your altitude.

» Tom Stoppard✈ There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. Thus, if the flight maneuver is simple enough, debate approaches infinity.✈ One particular circumstance distinguishes the sea commander from his equals in most other spheres. Crashing is what's dangerous.Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space.

What affects others will affect him personally. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.✈ Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. Enfolded in infinity of tide We lose it, and the last faint smoke line gray Merges into the sunset and is gone. You don’t have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights…. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don’t know of any pilots that don’t have a self-interest in staying alive.✈ I’ve owned 41 airplanes.

Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you’re sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. If it left that of the plane, when the visibility was at a minimum, I was in trouble and could even be upside down. 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.

» Sign over the entrance to the SR-71 operating location on Kadena.✈ Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club.✈ Every takeoff is optional. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. » Kurt Wien✈ You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost at Mach 3. It’s the same with TV pilots.