Your Favorite Aviation Quote

[fantom]

"Pull back to go up.....pull back more to go down."

[Lood]

"Always fly as if your life depends on it..... because it does."

[RobertoTohme]

"Learn from other's mistakes; you can't possibly live long enough in aviation to make them all by yourself"

[davidfreedman]

How do you spot a pilot at a party?  He walks up and tells you.

[fantom]

How do you recognize a Navy pilot at a nudist camp?

 

Large watch and small.....

[mooneyflyer]

I want to die in my sleep lie my grandfather did, and not like the screaming passengers in the back of the plane.

[140pilot]

Remember you can only tie the low altitude record !

[Guest Anonymous]

[Army Air Corps aviation cadet on his formation flight checkride:]

". . . . What bridge ?"

RFB

[Jerry 5TJ]

"An airplane accident is the simultaneous loss of airspeed, altitude and ideas."

 

[rturbett]

"Keep the pointy part forward and the dirty side down"

and

What makes an airplane fly?...........Money

[flyby201]

As a pilot, only two bad things can happen to you:
a. One day you will walk out to the aircraft knowing that it is your last flight.
b. One day you will walk out to the aircraft not knowing that it is your last flight.

 

 

[skyking]

Support your local banker.....buy an airplane!

[PTK]

You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.

[PTK]

You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.

[Amelia]

My (female) CFII, to my nonpilot husband who'd expressed surprise at the cost of  some minor IFR necessity:

"Darlin', you ought to know by now-- exciting women are expensive!"

[Alan Fox]

1)  The cheapest thing you will ever put in an airplane is fuel  2) Of course I trust you to work on your airplane , You are the one that has to FLY it !!!  3) Fly the airplane 4) your airspeed is your life

[Guest Anonymous]

Quote: rturbett

"Keep the pointy part forward and the dirty side down"

[Carl S]

As told to me when learning to fly formation, "From engine start to shutdown there are only two things I want to hear from you and that's 'Two!' and 'Lead you're on fire.'  And it better be a big damned fire."

 

[AustinChurch]

Said to a line man in Los Angeles...

"The tux is rented, but the jet is mine."

[trjymr]

"I'd rather be down here wishing I were up there, then up there wishing I were down here"

[DaV8or]

An airplane is a big hole in the sky you throw your money into.

[Cruiser]

“I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.” Wilbur Wright

[MARZ]

The perfect flare when training -

"Dive to the runway like a kamikaze and flare when the instructor flinches"

[Skybrd]

I learned this from an old flight instructor (Tom McCart in Bakersfield, Ca): "Keeps your wings level and fly right"

[thinwing]

found on the 1920 regulations for operation of aircraft..."pilots shall not wear spurs while flying"