Hiro Murai Quotes

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.

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

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.

It is cool to make a pilot because you get to do all the fun stuff, and then you get to leave when all the tough stuff starts.

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

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!

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

Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights.

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

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

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

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

During my training to become an airline captain, I had to learn how to navigate an airplane over long distances. Flights over huge oceans, crossing extensive deserts, and connecting continents need careful planning to ensure a safe arrival at the planned destination.

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

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

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

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.