Steve Fossett Quotes

My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.

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

We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.

An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.

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!

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

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

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

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

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

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.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

I'd like to fly.

I love flying.

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.

When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

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

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

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

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.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.