Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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

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

I always keep a plane on the pole at the airport.

I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes.

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

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

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization

A plane is of no use without the man or woman who flies it!

As a pilot, I can tell you drones may be a lot of things; airplanes they are not.

I really love flying, but it's really nice to jump on a plane, sit back, and let someone else do the heavy lifting, but flying is my main passion for sure.

From the time I was a little itty-bitty kid, I was going to the airport every day. I began to study all the airplanes, and I'd draw all the airplanes.

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

When I release something, I'm like, "OK, I want it to be the best." When I release my fragrance, I want it to be the number one fragrance. I don't want it to be like, "Oh yeah, you got ninth on the rankings."

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.

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions.

Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

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.

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