"I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody……" — Gordon Cooper
"I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster."
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17 Quotes by Gordon Cooper
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Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.
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Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be…
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I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick…
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I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a…
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Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are…
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I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were…
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Government is afraid that people may think the worst and panic about these creepy horrible invaders. So the idea is:…
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While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera…
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A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen)…
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Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951…
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For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can…
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I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.
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More Airplane Quotes
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
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I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or…
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these…
— Nolan Bushnell
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.…
— Michael P. Anderson
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Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful.…
— Charles Schumer
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Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its…
— Wernher von Braun
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I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.
— George Cayley
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be…
— Octave Chanute
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Unknown Author
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
— Otto Lilienthal
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MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever…
— Ernest K. Gann
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