What's Your Favorite Aviation Quote?

[Bartman]

Stay away from the edges of the air.

[Jeff_S]

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[DS1980]

“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

Mine too! However........

This quote is widely misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but there is no actual record of his ever having said or written it. The probable author is John Hermes Secondari, American author and television producer.

[Ned Gravel]

Here's another of my favourites:

 

Because I Fly, I envy no man on earth. — Grover C. Norwood

[WardHolbrook]

When I'm at TEB and I hear the words "Cleared for takeoff".

[Jerry 5TJ]

When I'm at TEB and I hear the words "Cleared for takeoff".

When I'm at TEB and hear "Cleared as filed...."

[Jerry 5TJ]

"another thousand feet and we'll be on top"

[ryoder]

"This is what I call a target rich environment." Maverick commenting on women at the bar.

[Mooneymite]

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There are only three rules for making a perfect landing everytime.  Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

[dcrogers11]

"Can you fly this plane and land it?"

"Surely you can't be serious?"

"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."

 

"Striker listen and listen close, flying a plane is no different that riding a bicycle, it's just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes." 

 

Airplane-The Movie

[bonal]

Clint Eastwood from Magnum force.

Taxiing from the left seat co pilot asks I know this might sound strange but, Can you fly?

"Nope never had a lesson"

[Geoff]

Three things that are of no use to a pilot: Altitude above you, runway behind you, and fuel in the fuel truck.

[John Pleisse]

"WHEN FLYING IN THE RED.........A WING WILL SHED".

[M20F]

Ever seen a grown man naked? - Captain Oveur

[Top Heavy]

"I don't know where I'm going, but I'm making great time."

[BKlott]

"Nonflyers don't know what it is like just to climb above the haze level on what they think is a clear day and burst into the sparkling clear air. The naked truth is that we live in different worlds." The late Frank Kingston Smith

"Make the airplane do what you want it to do." My Dad, Charles H. Lott, to me shortly after I earned my PPL.

"They all fly thru the same air." The late Al Mooney to Gordon Baxter

[Bluevalley]

An old captain asked the young first officer how he got his flying experience, he replied "the hard way, I had to pay for it". The captain replied "I can see you've never flown in combat!"

[N252WD]

If you dont like what you see, close your eyes...

At night, you dont like what you see, turn off the lights...

[Alan Fox]

How do you attract assholes.....................Put up a windsock........

[ryoder]

This guy should fly and then go look at gallery images of GTN750 installs on Mooneyspace and get back to me

Here's another of my favourites:

 

Because I Fly, I envy no man on earth. — Grover C. Norwood

[cujet]

My absolute favorite: 

 

"I want to die in my sleep, like my father did. Not screaming in fear like his passengers"

[John Pleisse]

"Always leave yourself a back door".

 

Me

 

 

 

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"John, it's not what you can afford..............it's want you want".

 

Don Maxwell

[Guest]

"Always leave yourself a back door".

 

Me

 

 

 

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"John, it's not want you can afford..............it's want you want".

 

Don Maxwell

Can someone translate the last one from Texan to English?

Clarence

[Ned Gravel]

This guy should fly and then go look at gallery images of GTN750 installs on Mooneyspace and get back to me

 

 

Ryan:

 

All well and good, but for me the thrill of flight doesn't actually have anything to do with all the gadgetry I put in my cockpit.  The thrill starts, for me, on the take off roll.  The realization doesn't hit me until I have stopped cleaning up and checking everything after TOC.  Look around and wonder.........  Wow!!  And at 150 knots too!!

 

For me, the gadgetry is all about one thing and one thing only - helping me put the aircraft in the right place so that I can land safely.  That's it. When I feel the need to enhance my chances of doing that under situations I have allowed (through planning good and bad) and I have the money for it, I will get it.  

 

Until then, I simply look forward to "taking the runway and lining up."  No time for envy.  Just for wonder. 

[DonMuncy]

I don't think it is Texan. I think is typos from "what" to "want".