Airplane Quote by Alan Shepard

The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn…

— Philip Wills

Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.

— Diane Ackerman

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

— Barry Goldwater

One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we…

— Otto Lilienthal

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do,…

— Chuck Yeager

“Recently a pilot was practicing high-speed maneuvers in a jet fighter. She turned the controls for what she thought was a steep ascent—and flew…

— Dallas Willard

A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have…

— Mark Twain

Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any…

— Mark Twain

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

For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this…

— Gerald McRaney

The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest…

— Lynn Garrison