Michael Mosley Quotes

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

I did a little bit of flying in high school, but I've just always been inspired and excited about airplanes.

I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

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

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.

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.

Growing up in the 1960s, I can't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated by airplanes and rockets.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

To fly or not to fly, that's the question.

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

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

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 love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

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.

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

We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes.

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

Look how far the human race has come in terms of air and space travel in the last hundred years. So in the next couple of thousand years, you've got to believe that we're going to be able to do all kinds of amazing things.

I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.

They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

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

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.