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Flying Quotes by Chuck Yeager
- There is no such thing as a natural born pilot. Whatever my aptitudes or talents, becoming a proficient pilot was hard work, really a lifetime's…
- The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.
- 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,…
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- Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
- I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying. — Andrea Arnold
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling… — Douglas Bader
- Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. — Douglas Adams
- I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying. — Sara Blakely
- There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. — Erma Bombeck
- I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six… — Elayne Boosler
- When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab.… — Elayne Boosler