Airspace Quotes

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

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.

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

When I was at NASA, I had a house on a small private airstrip that we shared between the flying community. I had a hangar in my backyard with my airplane in it so I could just fly from my home.

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the chalk cliffs of Dover, you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space.

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

The future is in the skies.

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

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.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.

Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.

I love flying planes.

I don't play a lot of games. I play flight simulators, mostly.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

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.