Michael Emerson Quotes

I became an air display pilot. I used to teach it. I was an examiner for a few years as well. It was great fun. I would still be doing it now if pretty much everyone I knew who was doing it hadn't died. In the first team I joined there were six people in it. By the time I stopped, there was only me and one other left - everyone else had died.

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

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

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

You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

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

She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.

They are spinning and people are dying.

If I'm not on stage, I'm a pilot. I like flying planes; I have a little plane back in Nashville.

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.

Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"

Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.

From a cell to a jet call it Con-Air

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like it.