--- title: "6 Airplane Quotes By Chuck Yeager" description: "6 Airplane quotes by Chuck Yeager. Plus more from Chuck Yeager and more Airplane sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/chuck-yeager-17185_airplane_it-s-your-duty-to-fly-the-airplane-if-yo_191630.jpg" --- > [It's your duty to fly the airplane. If you get killed in it, you don't know anything about it anyway. Duty is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/it-s-your-duty-to-fly-the-airplane-if-you-get-killed-in-it-you-don-t/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/chuck-yeager-17185_airplane_it-s-your-duty-to-fly-the-airplane-if-yo_191630.jpg) > [As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/as-we-went-through-mach-one-the-nose-started-dropping-so-we-just/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f6/chuck-yeager-17185_airplane_as-we-went-through-mach-one-the-nose-sta_865465.jpg) > [I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/i-was-always-afraid-of-dying-always-it-was-my-fear-that-made-me-learn/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fc/chuck-yeager-17185_afraid_i-was-always-afraid-of-dying-always-it-w_1585336.png) > [If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/if-you-can-walk-away-from-a-landing-it-s-a-good-landing-if-you-use/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/634/chuck-yeager-17185_airplane_if-you-can-walk-away-from-a-landing-it-s_1703011.png) > [Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/most-pilots-learn-when-they-pin-on-their-wings-and-go-out-and-get-in/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24d/chuck-yeager-17185_airplane_most-pilots-learn-when-they-pin-on-their_2660892.png) > [After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/after-about-30-minutes-i-puked-all-over-my-airplane-i-said-to-my-self/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02f/chuck-yeager-17185_airplane_after-about-30-minutes-i-puked-all-over_2744681.png) ## Other authors on Airplane ## More by Chuck Yeager > [In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/in-1966-nasa-took-over-in-space-and-it-has-been-a-bureaucratic-mess/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/you-do-what-you-can-for-as-long-as-you-can-and-when-you-finally-can-t/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [It's your duty to fly the airplane. If you get killed in it, you don't know anything about it anyway. Duty is paramount. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/it-s-your-duty-to-fly-the-airplane-if-you-get-killed-in-it-you-don-t/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/i-don-t-think-about-life-everlasting-if-something-doesn-t-have/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/if-you-want-to-grow-old-as-a-pilot-you-ve-got-to-know-when-to-push-it/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/it-wasn-t-that-the-x-1-would-kill-you-it-was-the-systems-in-the-x-1/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/as-we-went-through-mach-one-the-nose-started-dropping-so-we-just/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/i-have-no-regrets-about-my-life-people-ask-if-you-had-to-do-it-all/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/that-to-me-is-a-bunch-of-crap-trying-to-shoot-guys-up-into-damned/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/the-secret-of-my-success-is-that-i-always-managed-to-live-to-fly/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/unfortunately-many-people-do-not-consider-fun-an-important-item-on/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/you-don-t-concentrate-on-risks-you-concentrate-on-results-no-risk-is/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [Never wait for trouble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/never-wait-for-trouble/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/there-is-no-kind-of-ultimate-goal-to-do-something-twice-as-good-as/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) > [“You get in, You shoot, You get out!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-yeager/you-get-in-you-shoot-you-get-out/) [Chuck Yeager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-yeager/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/airplane/chuck-yeager/#itemlist", "name": "6 Airplane Quotes By Chuck Yeager", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's your duty to fly the airplane. If you get killed in it, you don't know anything about it anyway. Duty is paramount. It's that simple if you're a military guy. You don't say 'I'm not going to do that - that's dangerous.' 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