Aces Quote by Anonymous

The hunters are the ones who go out and kill. Maybe one out of ten good fighter pilots will be one of the hunters.

— Jack Ilfrey

Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness.…

— Robin Olds

I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.

— Max Irons

Fighter pilots rove in the area allotted to them in any way they like, and when they spot an enemy they attack and shoot…

— Manfred von Richthofen

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter…

— Adolf Galland

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

I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.

— MJ Hegar

The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything…

— Anonymous

There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot,…

— Robin Olds

I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.

— Robert Greene

The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation,…

— Jim Bailey

Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the pilot who…

— Robert S. Johnson