John Glenn Quotes

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

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.

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

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

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

I love flying planes.

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.

I wanted to fly when I was little. I still want to fly.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

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.

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.

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

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

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 got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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.

Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.

There's something just magical about flight. Period.