I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“Why do they call the room pilots sit a 'Cockpit'? Sounds like a place roosters go to die!!” — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. — Bob Hoover Copy Share Image
Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit. — Mark Webber Copy Share Image
“I tried not to seem like a kid who’d just been offered a chance to go up to the front of the… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
A spacecraft cockpit interior is a set where there are a lot of little techy bits, control panels and graphics displays, and… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Every time you see an interior, where somebody has a cockpit, is the real existing thing. Every time you see the exterior… — Daniel Simon Copy Share Image
The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it -… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in… — Douglas Bader Copy Share Image
My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands… — Holman W. Jenkins, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't see what the alternative to risk management is. If it's just getting rid of the models and instead using the… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to… — Jules Vedrines Copy Share Image
An engineer can look at the data, but he needs a translator from the cockpit - the driver - to understand it… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain,… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in… — Chris Hemsworth Copy Share Image
Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none… — Marcus J. Ranum Copy Share Image
Suicide is like the ejector button in the cockpit of an F-15. If life goes into a permanent tail spin, it's nice… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels… — Pierre Clostermann Copy Share Image
Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
