Your Favorite Aviation Quote

[Buster1]

I'll start:

You only need two things to fly............airspeed................and money!

[FlyDave]

You can sleep in your airplane, but you can't fly your house!

- Kate Porter, Tucson Soaring Club

[Ned Gravel]

Here is an oldie but goldie:

Three most useless things to a pilot:

• 
  
• Runway behind
  
• Sky above
  
• About three seconds ago    ........         (or Fuel in the bowser)
  

[RJBrown]

The only time there is too much fuel is when you are on fire.

 

[KJATCt]

I would rather be on the ground wishing I was in the air than in the air wishing I was on the ground.

[carusoam]

Plan your flight, fly your plan...

hope and wishful thinking make a lousy flight plan.  I hope there is enough fuel to get to my destination, I wish I filled up before I left.

For the Airforce guys:

"Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death I Shall Fear No Evil For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing."
-(Sign over the entrance to the SR-71 operating location Kadena, Japan).

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[mooneygirl]

My Dad [and of course he was a Mooney driver] said two things while I was growing up:

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

 

2) You fly like the famous Chinese pilot OneWingLow

 

 

 

[Lood]

1) If you doubt, don't

2) Maintain thy airspeed, lest the earth shall arise and smite thee

[piperpainter]

There is no way I can land this airplane! (examiner looks at watch) "Well, I bet in 2 hours your going to land this plane weather you think you can or not!"

[triple8s]

Flying, the second best feeling known to man................... a good landing is the first!

[Vref]

Every landing you can walk away from is a good landing..;-)

[Cruiser]

ATC: "what type of airplane are you?"

you: "I'm a Mooney!"

[flyguy241]

There are two kinds of retract pilots; those that have landed wheels up and those that will.

[DonMuncy]

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. A great landing is one after which you can use the plane again.

[Earl]

1) Flying is hours of tedium and boredom interspersed with moments of sheer terror.

2) 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.

3) from my Dad:  It's not the fall that hurts you, its the sudden stop at the bottom.  Apply that to flying.....

[scottfromiowa]

Keep your airspeed up.

[Jeff_S]

Two that relate to aircraft ownership:

1) There's a fine line between "airworthy" and "spending money".

2) I know there's money in aviation because I put it there!

[Mooney65E]

For the VFR pilot:

Time to spare...go by air.

[DonMuncy]

Time to spare; go by air. More time yet; go by jet.

[Hank]

My favorite:  to make a small fortune in aviation, start with a large fortune.

And a carryover from RC models:  nose heavy flies poorly, tail heavy flies once.

 

[The-sky-captain]

If you are ever faced with a forced landing at night, turn on the landing lights to see the landing area. If you don't like what you see... turn em' back off.

[Sven]

"You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice."

 

[Earl]

Just thought of another one.

When an old pilot was asked if he had ever tried skydiving he answered, "I never saw the sense in jumping out of a perfectly good airplane".

[jkb458]

"When 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

[RobertoTohme]

"Remember....  Take off is optional, landing is mandatory"