Aviation Quote by Dick Rutan

I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made…

— John Trevor Godfrey

I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very…

— Oded Fehr

My grandfather served as a pilot with the Army Air Corps, and he was shot down over Normandy in August 1944.

— Mikie Sherrill

When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.

— Chloe Grace Moretz

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

— George McGovern

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

— Manute Bol

I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.

— Mark Helprin

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've…

— Medgar Evers

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in…

— Roald Dahl

After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer…

— Nevil Shute

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting…

— Douglas Wilder

I think I'm safer in an airplane, I think I'm safer with my lungs full of smoke, I think I'm safer on a jet…

— Aaron Marsh