Kalpana Chawla Quotes

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes.

Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.

I don't own a helicopter because I want someone to bring me places quickly. I own it because it's an incredible machine that I like to fly and learn about. I like the complexity of it.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on the flight, I still enjoyed it, I believe.

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.

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

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.

I love flying and kind of just fascinated with it, and to fly something like an F-22 would be a blast.

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

A plane is of no use without the man or woman who flies it!

When I was at NASA, I had a house on a small private airstrip that we shared between the flying community. I had a hangar in my backyard with my airplane in it so I could just fly from my home.

As a pilot, I can tell you drones may be a lot of things; airplanes they are not.

I really love flying, but it's really nice to jump on a plane, sit back, and let someone else do the heavy lifting, but flying is my main passion for sure.

Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows I - I show pictures of my airplanes.