Leroy Chiao Quotes

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.

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France.

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

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

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

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

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

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

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.

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

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!

If I'm not on stage, I'm a pilot. I like flying planes; I have a little plane back in Nashville.

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.

Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.

I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.

When I was up on my first flight, we were really putting it together. So, I was essentially a construction worker.

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.

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

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.

The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.