Pilots Quotes
459 quotes by 352 authors
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What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours,…
— P. W. Singer
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Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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Started off local but thanks to all the haters, I know G4 pilots on a first name basis.
— Drake
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Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far,…
— Charles Lindbergh
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As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and…
— David M. Brown
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I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.
— Francis Gary Powers
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If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down.…
— Unknown Author
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I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.
— Kazimir Malevich
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When we endure our own tragedies or trials, most of us develop some empathy and compassion for others who are suffering. The trick is to…
— William Hudson O'Hanlon
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
— Seneca the Younger
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The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right…
— Billy Graham
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I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see…
— Howard Zinn
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The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its…
— Unknown Author
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Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have…
— William T. Piper
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The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.
— Walter Alexander Raleigh
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But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I…
— Unknown Author
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The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece…
— Unknown Author
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Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come…
— Unknown Author
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If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for…
— Louise Thaden
Who Wrote These Pilots Quotes
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