Rahul Gandhi Quotes

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

And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.

During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.

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

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

The CAA says that women are psychologically not fitted to be pilots, but I see pictures every now and then of women who are teaching men to fly. We know that in England, where the need is great, women are ferrying planes and freeing innumerable men for combat service.

If there was ever any doubt in anyone’s mind that women can become skillful pilots, the WASPs have dispelled that doubt.

After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.

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.

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it took to do that.

As astronauts know better than anyone else, risks, incidents, and mishaps are inevitable in the development of any high-performance vehicle. The emergence of supersonic flight during the 1940s and of the Century Series of fighters in the 1950s came with the loss of several test pilots. Still, it was a glorious time.

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

I left the Navy as a lieutenant after spending almost 10 years as a helicopter pilot.

One of my best friends was the first U.K. female fighter pilot.

After I graduated Star City school, I entered to the Tambov Military School of Pilots because I really wanted to be a pilot, and in Russia, it's one of the steps of how you make a career as a cosmonaut. You have to be a military pilot or an engineer.

I never did get hit, and neither did any of the leaders that I flew wing for.

If you want more kids to become engineers in space, travellers, and pilots, then you have to expose them to those types of careers.

I did a little bit of flying in high school, but I've just always been inspired and excited about airplanes.

I got this letter asking me if I wanted to or if I would consider going to experimental test pilot school and becoming the first Negro astronaut and I thought it was crazy.