Test Pilot Quotes

19 quotes by 14 authors

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me. — Nevil Shute
I read a comment [about me] on YouTube that I thought would upset me â€” â€˜Test pilot for piesâ€™ â€” but Iâ€™ve always been a… — Adele
Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down… — Wally Schirra
When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the… — Wally Schirra
And So, I Was Not A Military Test Pilot, But As Soon As NASA Expressed An Interest In Flying Scientists & People Who Were Not… — Story Musgrave
When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space… — Edgar Mitchell
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering… — Igor Sikorsky
Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than… — Eddie Rickenbacker
I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids… — Elon Musk
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. — Sally Ride
You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world. — Alan Shepard
But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school,… — Alan Shepard
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign… — Jonathan Winters
Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you… — Charles Duke
I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot… — Alan G. Poindexter
Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience… — Buzz Aldrin

Who Wrote These Test Pilot Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 19 Test Pilot Quotes as follows: