180 Quotes About Aviation

  • Author Stephen King
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    He remembered a pilot telling him once, 'They pay us a hundred thousand dollars or more a year, Brian, and they really do it for just one reason. They know that in almost every pilot's career, there are thirty or forty seconds when he might actually make a difference. They pay us not to freeze when those seconds finally come.

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  • Author Ernest K. Gann
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    We lived in and out of our flight bags, they being our true and only home. Thus, if we were not actually flying or sleeping, we were often lonely and at a loss to occupy ourselves.

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  • Author Tahmouress Sadeghi
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    Tahmouress Sadeghi has also worked for many different aviation companies, including Boeing Military and Commercial, MacDonald-Douglas, Northrop-Grumman, ARINC, and Allied Signals

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  • Author Ernest K. Gann
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    In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At the time of incident he would gladly return the entire amount for the privilege of being elsewhere.

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  • Author Leonardo da Vinci
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    For once you have tasted flight you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

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  • Author Ric Gillespie
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    We’re up against a public that wants a smoking gun . . .We know the public wants, demands, something simple. And we’re also very much aware that we live in a time of rampant science denial. Nobody does nuance anymore.

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