Cockpit Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most. — Chuck Yeager
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
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
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
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: