Aircraft Landing Quotes & Sayings

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. — Alan Shepard

Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany. — Adolf Hitler

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft — Nido R. Qubein

The gospel comes to the world not like an aircraft seeking an existing landing strip but like a bomb, which creates its own crater when it arrives. — Tony Lane

No, on the outside view there was nothing for anyone to notice about me. I remained one pillar of a trinity, another pillar was lying only temporarily (temporarily! temporarily! temporarily!) in the hospital, I was the pilot of a three-engine aircraft, one of whose engines had stalled: there is no reason to panic, this is not a crash landing, the pilot has thousands of flight hours behind him, he will land the plane safely on the ground. — Herman Koch

While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft. — Gordon Cooper