The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously not desperate and poor refugee dwellers. They were middle class, educated enough to speak English, to be able to go to flight school, to come to America, to live in Florida.
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.
As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.
I want to be some kind of a pilot. And the other thing that I really like is psychology.
I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.
Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.
Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.
I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.
When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.
I got into college, and a gentleman gave me a ride in a plane, and he flipped it upside down so we're inverted flying, like it was nothing, and from that moment forward, I fell in love with it. I said, 'I've got to learn this; I've got to do this.'
My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in.
When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.
But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.
I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.
As a kid I wanted to be a pilot.
Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.
When I started flying, I realized how enjoyable it was, and flying became my main focus while engineering went on the back burner.
I always wanted to be a pilot.
I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future career!
My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.
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.
I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.
