Jon Oringer Quotes

Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

I have always been an aviation nerd. I read the magazines.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

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

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

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

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.

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

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

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.

I love flying planes.

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

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

Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.

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.

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

I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it.

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.

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

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.