Wally Schirra Quotes

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

He taught me how to fly on my own and learn the tricks.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

My husband has some very interesting hobbies, and through him, I've learned to fly and earned my pilot's license. Together, we fly all over the United States. Since our children are all grown now, we also travel a great deal in Europe, but we take commercial flights because our plane is not really equipped to make transatlantic flights.

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.

Yes, it's true, I have bought a helicopter. I really like it. I can't fly it, but I plan to get a licence one day.

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.