Pete Conrad Quotes

Just had a close call landing in Tampa. The tires blew out upon landing.

When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

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

She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

My worst flight was flying between Macau and Osaka in 2007. The turbulence was so bad that the cabin crew were assuming their crash positions. I had more than a bit of a sweat on.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

It was the most romantic plane ever made.

I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His battle-song, - One quivering flash, One wildering crash, Followed by silence dead and dull, As if the cloud, let go, Leapt bodily below To whelm the earth in one mad overthrow, And then a total lull.

I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.

Have a seat, while I take to the sky.

There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.