Aviation Pilots Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy reading and share 16 famous quotes about Aviation Pilots with everyone.
Top Aviation Pilots Quotes

If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. — Bob Hoover

The only characteristic all airliners share is that upon proper urging they are normally capable of leaving the earth's surface. — Ernest K. Gann

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think. — Dennis Quaid

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

You are supposed to know how to fly or you would not be here. You will now learn to fly all over again. Our way. I have examined your logbooks. They contain some interesting and clever lies. If you are lucky and work a good solid eighteen hours a day in this school, it is barely possible that a few of you may succeed in actually going out on the line-that is, if the company is still in such desperate need of pilots that it will hire anybody who wears his wings in his lapel and walks slowly past the front door. — Ernest K. Gann

People who aren't afraid to live aren't afraid to die. — Carol Fiore

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. — Jacqueline Auriol

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward. — Igor Sikorsky

Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me. — Rick Perry

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. — Mary Garden

Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im. — Gordon Cooper

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

...I stand looking at the aircraft, trying in vain to remember all the theoretical lore which i was supposed to have absorbed in school. The effort is discouraging. — Ernest K. Gann

Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you. — Stephen Coonts

It is the professional pilot's bounden duty to know the idiosyncrasies of each type (of airplane), for he must spend a large proportion of his active career exploiting its qualities and compensating for its faults. These secrets cannot be discovered in a ground school. — Ernest K. Gann

Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots. — David Neeleman