Dane Cook Quotes

I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.

My career has been spent developing airplanes.

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

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

Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.

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

I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.

I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.

I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

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

UTC Aerospace Systems has a couple of million dollars of content on every single aircraft that gets delivered. That's the chutes, the electric system, rotors, etc.

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.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

… to seek employment as a designer of large aircraft.

Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.