What's Your Favorite Aviation Quote?

[mulro767]

Here's mine:

"There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight." — Elrey Borge Jeppesen

[Marauder]

Chuck Yeager "It's the man, not the machine"

[bumper]

Hey, what's this switch for?

 

Umm, where are we?

 

Don't run out of altitude, airspeed, and ideas all at the same time.

 

Oh $^it!

[ArtVandelay]

Watch this! Last said by a Cirrus salesman.

[rbuck]

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”--Leonardo da Vinci

[Fly By Night]

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots.

[Rwsavory]

"I have to go Potty!"

[Mooney65E]

It's always better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than to be in the air wishing you were on the ground.

[Jerry 5TJ]

watch your airspeed

[mooney389]

What are mountain goats doing up here?

[NotarPilot]

"I never met an airplane I didn't like" - Clay Lacy

[flyboy0681]

"Hours of total boredom with minutes of sheer terror"

[Bob_Belville]

An airplane will probably fly a little bit overgross but it sure won't fly without fuel.

 

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.

 

Rule one: No matter what else happens, fly the airplane.

 

Fly it until the last piece stops moving.

 

Believe your instruments.

[DAVIDWH]

"I really don't understand all the hoop-la about flying instruction, to go up you pull back, to go down, you pull back more."

 

"What could be easier than that?"

 

John Jackson RIP

[Andy95W]

Was that for us?

[Cabanaboy]

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee

[DonMuncy]

Flying is not inherently dangerous, but the air, even more than the sea, is unforgiving of incompetence, neglect or poor judgment.

[Jeff H.]

"Never let the facts get in the way of a good story."  -- somehow associated with Yeager.  I believe a contemporary described him as embodying this concept.

[Piloto]

"Is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind"

 

Neil Armstrong  on the Moon

July 20, 1969

 

 

For those that missed watching it on live TV

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4

 

José

[201er]

"Flying isn't dangerous, crashing is!" -me

[Bob_Belville]

Flying is not inherently dangerous, but the air, even more than the sea, is unforgiving of incompetence, neglect or poor judgment.

Don, I was looking for this one. A gem:

 

 

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree

than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.

~Captain A. G. Lamplugh, London, 1930's

 

This site has a lot of great quotes and they are attributed, a good thing.

www.limalima.com/aviation_quote_of_the_month.htm

 

example:

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations

which require the use of his superior skills.

~Frank Borman - Apollo 8

[Bob_Belville]

Hard to pick just one...

 

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there
isn’t any woman and there isn’t any horse, nor any before
nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.
~Earnest Hemingway, Colliers, 1944

 

A mile of highway will take you a mile, a mile of runway will take you anywhere.
~Steve, Blogger from Ohio

 

God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos.
~Barrett Tillman, aircraft historian and author

 

Pilots vs. Drones
Drones will not be late to briefings, start fights at happy hour,
destroy clubs, attempt to seduce others' dates, spill flaming hookers,
purchase huge watches, insult other services, sing O'Leary's Balls,
dance on tables, yell  "Show us your tits!" or do all of the other
things that we know win wars!
~Attributed to a USAF fighter pilot

[mike_elliott]

When Gus Grissom answered the question "the only time I was afraid was right before liftoff, when I realized that every component in the Mercury Capsule went to the lowest bidder" RIP Gus

[Ned Gravel]

Flying is not inherently dangerous, but the air, even more than the sea, is unforgiving of incompetence, neglect or poor judgment.

 + 1

 

If you are not paying attention, Gaia will kill you.  At sea it can take up to four or five hours.  In the air, it will take only minutes.

[47U]

"If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible." - Bob Hoover