Available Quote by Tom Hooper

I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the…

— Anonymous

By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

— Alex Garland

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

— Mikie Sherrill

I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

— Andre Aciman

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there.…

— Valentina Tereshkova

My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her…

— Chris Cleave

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by…

— Roald Dahl

I first flew in a plane at eight, and by the age of 10 I had mother drive me out to an airstrip to…

— Wally Funk

My mother was a stay-at-home mum and my father was an RAF pilot.

— Esme Young

My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian…

— Alan Bradley

I was there on 9/11. I watched the towers falling from my office window, at which point I decided I would give up my…

— Naomi Alderman

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

— Thomas Haden Church