Aviation Interest Quotes

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

I would go in the university stacks and pull out books like 'Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II' when I was 12 or something, and I'd spend hours reading about the engines in some of those planes.

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

My brother still lives in the house my parents owned in Fairborn. I go back there a lot to visit friends and keep my connection to the National Museum of the Air Force and my membership with the Dayton Engineers Club.

I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.

I have always been an aviation nerd. I read the magazines.

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper.