Answers Quote by Alan Bean

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

— Gus Grissom

No, you sort of have to put that out of your mind. There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of…

— Gus Grissom

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

— Burt Rutan

When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in…

— Wally Schirra

If you can fly an airplane competently, you can fly it safely even if something does happen.

— Jessica Cox

By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new…

— Gus Grissom

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

— Richard Bach

Wing-suit flying can be safe if you are highly practiced and skilled and follow the fundamental rules of questioning yourself and waiting or walking…

— Dean Potter

“Good testing involves balancing the need to mitigate risk against the risk of trying to gather too much information.”

— Gerald M. Weinberg

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

— Denzel Washington

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

— Michael Bolton