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My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.
If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.
There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime.
I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.
The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.
I don't fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.
Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots.
This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.
I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.
Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.
I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.
The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.
It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.
I have flown ValuJet. ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system.
Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'
I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.
Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.
I'd manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else.
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.
To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft
If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.
I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.
Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.
As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.
If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.
The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation.
I'm in control of things happening in my aviation career. And I'm not in my acting career.
It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle.
It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.
Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.
Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.