Barriers Quote by Chuck Yeager Download Open image “Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.” — Chuck Yeager ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barriers Break Break through Cockpit Shakes Sound
I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30,… — Chanel Iman Copy Share Image
As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then you have supersonic flow over the whole airplane, so you have no more shock waves on it that are causing… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share
Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Ten seconds before launch, I feel the vibration from the Sound Suppression Water System. Water pours from a 300,000-gallon tank through pipes and nozzles… — Scott Parazynski Copy Share Image
'Unskilled' pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around the microphone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence - after that, I didn't fly for four years. Then… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
Feel like I'm riding on a chartered plane of broken hearted pain. Turbulence is constant my pilot has gone insane. — J Cole Copy Share Image
The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
It's your duty to fly the airplane. If you get killed in it, you don't know anything about it anyway. Duty is paramount. It's… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No.… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography. — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I've cosponsored legislation to establish a lend-lease program to simplify bureaucratic barriers and allow a speedier transfer of U.S. military equipment to Ukraine. — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Fear is the single biggest barrier to creativity. Unless we're brave enough to risk looking foolish, we'll inevitably find ourselves sticking to the status… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
He looked at my lips. I suddenly found myself wanting to lick his. 'Yes,' he replied, his eyes going molten. My breath caught in… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image