Cockpit Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of…
— Douglas Bader
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I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit; I…
— Charles Rumney Samson
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The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a…
— Ernest K. Gann
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My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me…
— Charles Lindbergh
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And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a…
— Pierre Clostermann
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I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to a battleship with…
— Jules Vedrines
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There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The…
— Robin Olds
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You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and…
— James Salter
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Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view out…
— Mark Hanna
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If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed…
— Marcus J. Ranum
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The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We…
— Ernest K. Gann
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Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the…
— Adolf Galland
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It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of…
— Mike Melvill
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I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.
— Robert Breault
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Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.
— Chuck Yeager
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There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class…
— Jay Leno
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I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment,…
— Chuck Yeager
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Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX…
— Greg MacGillivray
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and…
— Orlando Bloom
Who Wrote These Cockpit Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Cockpit Quotes as follows: