Mike Ferguson Quotes

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

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

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

I don't play a lot of games. I play flight simulators, mostly.

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.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

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

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.

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

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

Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

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

I read, studied, and learned everything I could find about aviation. It was my greatest desire to become a pilot. I could already picture myself in the cockpit of an airliner or in a military fighter plane. I felt deep in my heart this was my thing!

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.

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.

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.

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

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 approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

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