Zitate aus der Luftfahrt und von Piloten

#2

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

#4

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 'Wind, Sand, and Stars,' 1939"

#6

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

#8

"When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten."- Robert Livingston

#10

"Don't ever let an airplane take you someplace where your brain hasn't arrived at least a couple of minutes earlier."- Anon.

#12

"there are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots"

#14

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

#16

"There is only one rule - Rule One - TNB - Trust No Bastard - they are all trying to kill you."- Captain Rick Davies, Chief Pilot, Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (Queensland Section), advise given to new captains

#18

The average pilot, despite the sometimes swaggering exterior, is very much capable of such feelings as love, affection, intimacy and caring. These feelings just don't involve anyone else.

#20

If you fail to prepare, then prepare to fail!!!

#22

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#24

"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." - Amelia Earhart

#26

"Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not." - Michael Parfit, 'Smithsonian' magazine

#28

"To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything." - Otto Lilienthal

#30

"Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying." - Neil Armstrong

#32

"Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it." - Amelia Earhart

#34

"Lady, you want me to answer you if this old airplane is safe to fly? Just how in the world do you think it got to be this old?"

#36

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the Rudder Pedals. - Harry Bill

#38

You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.

#40

Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.

#42

Old Pilots never die, they just loose manifold Pressure.

#44

If you push the stick forward, the hauses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. If you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.

#46

I remember the time when sex was save and flying was dangerous.

#48

"Complacency or a false sense of security should nor be allowed to develop as a result of long periods without an accident or serious incident. An organisation with a good safety record is not necessarily a safe organization." ICAO Accident Prevention Manual, 1984

#50

The worst day of flying still beats the best day of real work.

#52

Any pilot who does not privately consider himself the best in the game is in the wrong game.

#54

Two of the most dangerous things in the world are a South Georgia pulpwood truck, and a doctor in a split tail bonanza.

#56

Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds.

#58

Some pilots will make an emergency out of a bad magneto check. Others, upon losing a wing, will ask for a lower altitude.

#60

Fuel in the tanks is limited. Gravity is forever.

#62

"I ran out of altitude, airspeed and ideas all at the same time." When asked why he ejected. Attributed to Tony Lavier, Chuck Yeager, and just about every other well-known test pilot

#64

Always remember you fly an airplane with your head, not your hands.

#66

„Erst das Flugzeug hat für uns das wahre Gesicht der Erde enthüllt.“ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939

#68

"The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul." Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh. (This is not that other Sir Walter Raleigh, who was beheaded nearly three hundred years earlier. This Sir Walter became the official historian of the RAF.)

#70

"Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly." Batman costume warning label, Wal-Mart, 1995.

#72

"Talking about airplanes is a very pleasant mental disease." Sergei Sikorsky, 'AOPA Pilot' magazine February 2003.

#74

"Are you ever afraid when you fly?" "That's a good question. Yeah. I'm always a little afraid when I fly. That's what makes me so damn good. I've seen pilots who weren't afraid of anything, who would forget about checking their instruments, who flew by instinct as though they were immortal. I've pissed on the graves of those poor bastards too. The pilot who isn't a little bit afraid always screws up and when you screw up bad in a jet, you get a corporal playing taps at the expense of the government." Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meecham, USMC

#76

"Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect." Captain A. G. Lamplugh

#78

Fly with the eagles, or scratch with the chickens.

#80

The nicer an airplane looks, the better it flies.

#82

"Airspeed, altitude or brain - you need at least two of them." unkown

#84

Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven hundred miles without taking off his hat. He probably will not even mention this flight, which a bare twenty-five years ago would have meant wearing leather jacket and helmet and goggles and risking his neck every minute of the way. No, he probably wouldn't mention it - except to another flier. Then they will talk for hours. They will re-create all the things seen and felt in that wonderful world of air: the sense of remoteness from the busy world below, the feeling of intense brotherhood formed with those who man the radio ranges and control towers and weather stations that bring the pilot home, the clouds and the colors, the surge of the wind on their wings. They will speak of things that are spiritual and beautiful and of things that are practical and utilitarian, they will mix up angels and engines, sunsets and spark plugs, fraternity and frequencies in one all-encompassing comradeship of interests that makes for the best and most lasting kind of friendship any man can have." — Percy Knauth, Wind on my wings, 1960.

#86

"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." Mary Kay Ash

#88

The most difficult thing about flying is knowing when to say no.

#90

"Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries." - unkown

#92

A smooth landing is mostly luck. Two in a row is all luck. Three in a row is provocation.

#94

The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. Large angle of arrival, small probability of survival and vice versa.

#96

Equipment problems that go away by themselves will come back by themselves.

#98

If no liquids (such as fuel, oil, grease or hydraulic fluid) are leaking out of an aircraft, it's safe to say there are none within.

#100

Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you.

#102

"Any occurrence requiring undivided attention will be accompanied by a compelling distraction." — Robert Bloch, American Author

#104

'To most the sky is the limit....for pilots it is home!'

#106

"If you wish to have an eventful, exciting flight, don’t prepare for it, don’t brief situations and responsibilities, and don’t plan on things changing on you...
But for those of us who prefer to keep things boring and uneventful, I recommend that you fly like you train, expect the unexpected, and have a backup plan."
„Wenn Sie einen ereignisreichen, aufregenden Flug wünschen, bereiten Sie sich nicht darauf vor, briefen sie keine Situationen und Verantwortlichkeiten und planen Sie nicht, dass sich Dinge ändern können ...
Aber für diejenigen unter uns die es vorziehen die Dinge beim Fliegen langweilig zu halten empfehle ich, zu Fliegen wie Sie es gelernt haben, das Unerwartete zu erwarten und einen Plan B zu haben."
— Lt. Trever Garabedian-Prophet, HSL-49

#108

Death is nature's way of telling you to watch your AIRSPEED!

#110

There are Rules and there are Laws. The rules are made by men who think that they know better how to fly your airplane than you do. Laws (of Physics) were made by the Great One. You can, and sometimes should suspend the Rules but you can never suspend the Laws”

#112

"Experience is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson."

#114

"Don't drop the aircraft in order to fly the microphone."

#116

Three things kill young pilots in Alaska - weather, weather, and weather.

#118

"Wer am höchsten fliegt, sieht am weitesten" - RICHARD BACH in DIE MÖWE JONATHAN

#120

"Asking someone why they love to fly is almost like asking someone why they like Picasso. The beauty is the fact that you can't really describe it; it's something you have to behold." - Barry Schiff, aviation safety expert / pilot

#122

"Experience is a jewel, and it has need to be, for it often bought at the ultimate price!" - Shakespeare

#124

"If you wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down." Toni Morrison

#126

Flying an aeroplane with only a single propeller to keep you in the air. Can you imagine that? Jean-Luc Picard, Captain U.S.S. Enterprise D

#128

Flying is the second-greatest thrill on earth. Landing is the first.

#130

Helicopter: 10,000 spare parts flying in close formation.

#132

If you can't leave your worries at home, stay there with them.

#134

Before attempting to beat the odds, be sure you can can survive the odds beating you.

#136

"My soul is in the sky." - William Shakespeare

#138

"Aviation is proof, that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible." - Eddie Rickenbacker

#140

Je höher wir uns erheben, um so kleiner erscheinen wir denen, welche nicht fliegen können. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

#142

‘If there is a crisis in flight planning, then it’s GPS that’s the culprit,’ a chief flying instructor (CFI) with a university-linked flying training organisation says

#144

(privat) flying comes at a price, but life is for living...

#146

“Man is not as good as a black box for certain specific things; however he is more flexible and reliable. He is easily maintained and is easily manufactured by relatively unskilled labor.” —Wing Commander H.P. Ruffell Smith, RAF, 1949

#148

"If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it. Ride the bastard down." - Ernest K. Gann, advice from the "Old Pelican"

#150

Stay out of clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps talking about might be another airplane going in the opposite direction. Reliable sources also report that mountains have been known to hide out in clouds.

#152

"The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you." - Ernest K. Gann, advice from the "Old Pelican"

#154

"If you find yourself in trouble (in a cloud, for example), take a sip of coffee. There's no situation you can't make worse by being too hasty."

#156

In aviation, a little paranoia is healthy.

#158

"Tim Plunkett, a retired Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Professor who flew for the Air Force and Delta Air Lines and remains an active test pilot, has built three WWI-era planes: a German Fokker D7, Dr1 Triplane and a British Sopwith Camel. He says the planes are "unstable, uncoordinated, unbalanced, tail heavy, high drag, slow turning ... hard to land and unpredictable. And about the most fun you can have as a pilot."

#160

"I learned the discipline of flying in order to have the freedom of flight…Discipline prevents crashes." - Captain John Cook, British Airways, Concorde Pilot

#162

"The LEAST experienced press on where the MORE experienced turn back to join the MOST experienced - who never left the ground in the first place." - unknown

#164

'I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.' - Charles A. Lindbergh, to Wiley Post, 1931

#166

'Don't be afraid to ask a dumb question - it is easier to correct than a dumb mistake'

#168

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind. I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time. Charles A. Lindbergh

#170

"I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. 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. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with your life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close." - Bob Hoover

#172

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see . . . — Charles A. Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis, 1953.

#174

The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport. — Orville Wright

#176

Even before [we] . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out of the airplane with stars in my eyes. — Geraldyn Cobb, regards her first flight, piloted by her father when she was 12 years old.

#178

Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills. — Pancho Barnes

#180

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it. — John Glenn

#182

I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky. — Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper, Leap of Faith, 2000.

#184

Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit; I did this, however, to be able to say good-bye to the old dear; and I really felt dreadfully sorry to part with her. I get very attached to aeroplanes, and I am one of those people who think that they aren't so inanimate as we are told they are. — Charles Rumney Samson, 'A Flight from Cairo to Cape Town and Back,' 1931

#186

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, 'The Corn was Two Feet Below the Wheels,' Smithsonian Magazine, May 2000.

#188

"The flight is the reason, the destination is only an excuse!"

#190

The three rules to apply to your flying for greater safety (Mario’s Rules):

 
• Never assume you know it all, there is always more to learn and in fact, situations continually change so more study is essential.
 
• Always rely on standard operating procedures and a checklist. This is especially helpful when the fertilizer hits the fan.
 
• Always maintain a sense of wonder at what we accomplish daily as aviators when we defy gravity. A little fear is a good thing.

#192

You can always tell when a man has lost his soul to flying. The poor bastard is hopelessly committed to stopping whatever he is doing long enough to look up and make sure the aircraft purring overhead continues on course and does not suddenly fall out of the sky. It is also his bound duty to watch every aircraft within view take off and land. — Ernest K Gann

#194

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I’m afraid, lying. — Louise Thaden

#196

Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn’t. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is—it goes on wings. — Wolfgang Langewiesche, first words of Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying, 1944

#198

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable … after 50 years of flying I’m still learning every time I fly. — Gene Cernan (last man on the moon)

#200

Better to hit the far fence at 10 knots than the close fence at VRef. — Captain Rick Davies, Chief Pilot, Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (Queensland Section), advice given to new captains

#202

Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience. -- Air Vice-Marshal J. E. ‘Johnnie’ Johnson, RAF.

#204

Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time. -- Ernest K. Gann, describing advice from ‘a very old pelican of an aviator,’ ‘The Black Watch,’ 1989.

#206

I don’t want monitors here. I want pilots. . . . Our whole philosophy is that the pilot is in charge of the airplane. We’re very anti automation here at this airline. -- Greg Crum, System Chief Pilot Southwest Airlines, 1996

#208

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. -- Publius Syrus

#210

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. If pilots are inaccurate, they get lost—sometimes killed. In my profession life itself depends on accuracy. — Charles A. Lindbergh, ‘The Spirit of St. Louis,’ 1953

#212

"Flying is a great equalizer. The plane doesn't know or care about your gender as a pilot, nor do the ground troops who need your support. You just have to perform. That's all anyone cares about when you're up there - that you can do your job, and that you do it exceptionally well." Lt. Col. Christine Mau 33rd Fighter Wing Operations Group deputy commander, and first female to fly the F-35

#214

I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I’m a billionaire! -Howard Hughes

#216

"Schaut zu den Sternen und nicht auf eure Füße" Stephen Hawking

#218

Here's to the men with greasy hands
Who fuel our planes when the pilot lands.
Who change the tires and oil the squeaks,
Fix the flak damage and stop the leaks.

Tend to the controls to make them fly straight,
Wait for the planes when the pilots are late.
Who smooth the scratches and rivet the panels,
Check "Loud and clear" on the radio channels.

Who read the write-ups and make the repairs,
Check the lines and wires for chafing and tears.
Who pull the chocks and walk the wings,
And do a million maint'nance things.

Who watch as the bird takes off and flies.
So here's a salute to those hard-working guys
From a group of flyers who seldom ponder
The men who keep us in the wild blue yonder.

#220

“Above all, the risk assessment is a tool to enhance safety. If it doesn’t accurately reflect the mission, it’s not working. (Vor allem ist die Risikobewertung ein Werkzeug zur Erhöhung der Sicherheit. Wenn es die Mission nicht genau wiedergibt, funktioniert es nicht.)" - Maj Curtis Alexander

#222

Remember, you’re always a student in an airplane.

#224

If you don't gear up your brain before takeoff, you'll probably gear up your airplane on landing.

#226

"But you remember one thing. You screw up just this much, you’ll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong." - CDR Tom "Stinger" Jordan aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) to Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Nick "Goose" Bradshaw

#228

Over-shooting your goal can be a good thing
Unless the goal was a runway,
and you're a pilot - Bob Moner

#230

"Emergency landings are done to save lives, not airplanes." - unkown

#232

"When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership. " - Chesley Sully Sullenberger

#234

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life. — Stephen Coonts

#236

Aviation is a Love Story that can Only Be lived through the Eyes of an Aviator.

#238

From the air, the distinctions between residential, commercial, and industrial areas are easily understand while town, county, and state boundaries go unseen. — Oliver Gillham, 'The Limitless City,' 2001.

#240

I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does. — Robert Six, founder of Continental Airlines.

#242

I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam. — Richard Bach, 'Running From Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit,' 1994. Daisy is Richard's Cessna 337

#244

I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure. — Beryl Markham

#246

I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky. — Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper, Leap of Faith, 2000.

#248

Flying is a lot like playing a musical instrument; you're doing so many things and thinking of so many other things, all at the same time. It becomes a spiritual experience. Something wonderful happens in the pit of your stomach. — Dusty McTavish

#250

Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand. — Stephen Coonts, 'The Cannibal Queen'

#252

How do you like your coffee, Captain - cream & sugar?'
We are at 30 west, the half-way point between the European & North American continents, & the stewardess in charge of the forward galley is looking after her aircrew during a pause in serving the passengers' meals.
Mach 2. On autopilot, eleven miles high, moving at 23 miles a minute. Nearly twice as high as Mount Everest, faster than a rifle bullet leaving its barrel. The side windows are hot to the touch, from friction of the passing air. Despite the speed we can talk without raising our voices.
"Milk, please, & no sugar".
— Brian Calvert, the opening paragraphs of Flying Concorde, 1982.

#254

Do not spin this aircraft. If the aircraft does enter a spin it will return to earth without further attention on the part of the aeronaut.

#256

I’ve owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight. There’s a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

#258

" Houston, we've had a problem here." Jim Lovell, Astronaut, Commander Apollo 13

#260

"Flying an airplane is a challenge. It tests your limits. You learn more about yourself being a pilot than anything else." - Michael Goulian

#262

I want to buy an airplane, but my wife Cess - Nah!

#264

"The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away." - Harrison Ford

#266

“I have seldom met an airplane I didn’t like.” - Clay Lacy

#268

“I learned a lot from hangar flying.” - Clay Lacy

#270

"In life you are either a passenger or a pilot, it's your choise." - unkown

#272

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart

#274

"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." - Walter Marty „Wally“ Schirra Jr., US-Testpilot und Astronaut

#276

"One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground." - Sonny Perdue

#278

"When I started at the Air Force Academy, I found out that I couldn't be a fighter pilot simply because I had ovaries. That was enough to make me go for it." - Martha McSally

#280

"Don't be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots." - unknown

#282

“There's only one job in this world that gives you an office in the sky; and that is pilot.” ? Mohith Agadi

#284

“When you’re in a high performance airplane, you really have to—despite what might be happening in your personal life or things with your job, or things on the ground—you really have to focus on what you’re doing right now.” — Scott Kelly, Commander of the International Space Station

#286

“Because I Fly, I envy no man on earth.” – Last lines of the poem “Because I Fly” by Grover C. Norwood, USAF (Retired)

#288

"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you." — Frank Crane

#290

"The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy." — Baron Manfred Von Richthofen

#292

"Airplanes are near perfect, all they lack is the ability to forgive." -- Dick Collins, Author

#294

"The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen" Richard Bach

#296

"There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. The trick in becoming an old pilot is knowing exactly when to be, and when not to be bold"- Dudley Henriques

#298

"Any flying' job's better'n any non-flying' job." - Lloyd Baker, pilot instructor

#300

"Life is simple. Eat, sleep, fly." anonymous

#302

"And into the sky I go - to loose my mind and find my soul"

#304

"I proselytize about coordinated turns or utilizing adverse aileron yaw in crosswind landings. You know, stick-and-rudder skills, not swipe-right aeronautical distraction making." - Paul Berge

#306

"Being a good pilot is having the self awareness to realise you have done some shit, recognising it and being honest about it with yourself and others. Then setting an example that less experienced pilots can follow." Simon Wilson

#308

Commander Fitzhugh Green was driving Lindbergh back to New York after the Washington home-coming reception.
'Slim,' he said, 'what are you going to do after the noise dies down?'
'Fly.'
'But I mean—say five years from now?'
'Fly.'
'Well, don't you intend to get married?'
'Oh, I suppose that might happen to anyone.'
'After you're married what will you do?'
'Fly.'

#310

"What I like best about flying is the freedom it affords to navigate an ocean of air and see the earth from a wider perspective. I never tire of the beauty of the earth by day or the sky by night." - Chesley 'Sully' Sullenbeger

#312

"Life doesn't get complicated until you land." - Patty Wagstaff

#314

"You never lose the buzz of flying. Every time you take off, it feels a bit naughty, as if you’re doing something humans shouldn’t really do." - Matt Jones

#316

"Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history." - James Dickey

#318

“The good thing about flying solo is its never boring.” — Steve Fossett

#320

"There are two critical points in aerial flight—its beginning and its end." - Alexander Graham Bell

#322

"There is a kind of principle of the sky, a spirit of flight that calls to certain among mankind as the wilderness calls to some, and the sea to others." Richard Bach

#324

"That was some of the best flying I've seen to date - right up to the part where you got killed" - Lieutenant Commander Rick "Jester " Heatherly to Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell at the Fighter Pilot Weapon School (known as TOP GUN)

#326

"It's not the plane, it's the pilot" - Maverick

#328

“Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don’t have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what’s going on and what you should be involved in.” - Buzz Aldrin.

#330

“One of the beautiful things about a single-piloted aircraft is the quality of the social experience.” - Richard Drury.

#332

"You've never lived till you've flown.” - Bessie Coleman

#334

Training is like fighting a gorilla. You don’t stop fighting when you are tired; you stop when the gorilla is tired.

#336

"We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training." - Archilochus

#338

Someday we will know, where the pilots go When their work on earth is through. Where the air is clean, and the engines gleam, And the skies are always blue. They have flown alone, with the engine's moan, As they sweat the great beyond, And they take delight, at the awesome sight of the world spread far and yon. Yet not alone, for above the moan, when the earth is out of sight, As they make their stand, He takes their hand, and guides them through the night. How near to God are these men of sod, Who step near death's last door? Oh, these men are real, not made of steel, But He knows who goes before, And how they live, and love and are beloved, But their love is most for air. And with death about, they will still fly out, And leave their troubles there. He knows these things, of men with wings, And He knows they are surely true. And He will give a hand, to such a man 'Cause He's a pilot too.

#340

The human brain is truly amazing. It functions 24 hours a day from the moment we are born and only stops when we have to figure out how to enter the hold.

#342

We're born to pilot our own plane and explore the world,
not sit in the airport.
Wir sind dazu geboren, unser eigenes Flugzeug zu steuern und die Welt zu erkunden,
und nicht, um am Flughafen zu sitzen.

#344

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Man lernt den Piloten im Sturm kennen.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#346

“Before you do something stupid up there, think of what everyone sitting down here will say about you after they read the accident report.” "Bevor du dort oben etwas Dummes tust, denke darüber nach, was jeder, der hier unten sitzt, über dich sagen wird, nachdem er den Unfallbericht gelesen hat."- Angus Kydd, Flight Instructor

#348

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart

#350

If you're not happy single, you won't be happy married. Happiness comes from airplanes not relationships.

#352

If others discourage you from your passion for flying, that's their limit, not yours. An eagle doesn't need that kind of advice from a hamster.