Chuck Yeager Quotes

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

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

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

Pilots are not the threat.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them.

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

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.

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

Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.

The experimental plane may well finish up a few fields from the end of the runway. If that is so, the voluntary occupants will have only inflicted bruises or worse upon themselves. But the reverse may occur and the experimental plane soar into the sky.

I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable.

Sweetie, nothing that flies looks safe, including birds.

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.

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

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.

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.

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

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

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.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.