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There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series.
You are the pilot of your destiny. Your actions are the plane.
Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.
During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.
We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.
You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.
I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
You used to be fly, but you crashed your plane.
In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him.
I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.
They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!
I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.
It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one's friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.
The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.
Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.
Are you a passenger on a ghost ship or are you the pilot?
And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.
I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
Everybody wants to fly. At some stage in their lives, everyone looks up in the sky and sees the seemingly effortlessness of a bird in the gulf of air overhead and thinks: I wish, just one time, that could be me.
When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.
Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers.
Whenever you get on the plane, the flight attendant will always tell you the name of your pilot. Like anyone goes, Oh, he's good.
You may never know which specific moments of your life fuel someone's pilot light with inspiration when they need it most.
Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.
There's a joke in the aviation industry that the ideal aircrew in today's modern aircraft would be comprised of a man and a dog. The dog is there to bite the man if he so much as tries to touch the controls, and the pilot's one remaining job is to feed the dog!
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.
Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.
Take me to the pilot of your soul.
Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does.
Contrails. Also helicopters. Skydivers. Basically everything
Only those who dare may fly
The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.
Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.
And your Winston Churchill says such good things about the pilots (the Polish ones, too).
We are not like that, we engineers. We are men of understanding and of education, on whom is laid responsibility that men may travel in these aeroplanes as safely as if they were sitting by the well in the cool of the evening.
government, take off in a
Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
I'd like to fly.
I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.
Flying used to be so great but now it's more of a trial.
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
....Everyone deserves a chance to fly!
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
Behind every successful flight, lies the will, full of thrust, against the wind; the will to win.
I want to help you "fly right" in the gathering storms of the last days. You are the pilots. You are responsible to think about the consequences of every choice you make. Your righteous choices will keep you from getting off course.
A computer will perform a takeoff or landing with all the grace of a person. It is only for combat
only for the artistry of ruin
that these vessels have pilot seats at all anymore. There is something in humanity more suited to the mechanics of murder than any machine yet devised.
Even though I'm a family guy, there is something that feels really beautiful about eliminating all children from flying. So, children have to fly on child-only planes. And the pilots have to be children as well.
Choose. Fly or die.
Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.
A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.
For more than fifty years, or long before the Wright brothers took up their part, would-be "conquerors of the air" and their strange or childish flying machines, as described in the press, had served as a continuous source of popular comic relief.
Damned planes. Too confining, too noisy - too fucking high in the air.
Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist,
Western European civilization.
I'm a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.
One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.
Tailor gang they rolling up those paper planes.
Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst.
Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're flying among the stars.
I'm not a ranger, I'm a pilot.
Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.
'Twenty One Pilots' is a play by Arthur Miller, who also wrote 'All My Sons.' It's about a guy who's creating and developing parts for airplanes in war time, when it comes to his attention that some of these parts were faulty.
More die in flight than in battle.
In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest knew sub-consciously, that they would make up the numbers, mill about, and get shot at.
I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.
I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.
To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up.
Flying High with the Angels
If idiots could fly, this place would be an airport.
In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains.
We're fresh out of flying boys.
Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.
Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Boys can't be stewardesses, and girls can't be pilots.
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
It was among the knowledgeable others that one hoped to be talked about and admired. It was not impossible - the world of squadrons is small. The years would bow to you; you would be remembered, your name like a thoroughbred's, a horse that ran and won.
Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it ... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.
We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.
Your life will fly by, so make sure you're the pilot.
Great pilots are made not born ... A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience.