Aviation Quotes

[Flare]

Found this page while looking for a Hemingway quote.....maybe it has been posted here before, maybe not.....

https://www.airnoosa.com/index17.php

[BFM this]

Saw one in Flying Mag a while back by a warbird pilot:

"God gave me two hands so that in an emergency, one could slap the other."

-Unknown

[Guest Hoser]

Turn to Kill, not to engage.

- Willie Driscoll

Cap-10

[ 20. November 2005, 22:13: Message edited by: Cap-10 ]

[Rocker]

Here's another good site for quotes. Several repeats from ENJJPTIP's site, but some other interesting quotes.

One of my favorites:

You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost at Mach 3.

-- Paul F. Crickmore

[Toro]

Talking to a retired mechanic the other day and he told me a cool quote that he overheard between a cocky F-4 pilot and his mechanic, who was asking how to become a pilot.

Pilot – “It takes a college education to fly this thing.”

Mechanic – “Well it takes a GED to work on it. I wonder if you’re coming back today.”

[Guest BritCabDriver]

Basic Flying Rules:

"Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space.

It is much more difficult to fly there."

[Guest DDerrick51]

"Hope is not a mission planning factor"

[Guest xtndr50boom]

"Though I fly through the valley of death I shall fear no evil; for I am at 80,000 feet and climbing"

Sign at the entrance to Kadena SR-71 ops building

[amcflyboy]

Talking to a retired mechanic the other day and he told me a cool quote that he overheard between a cocky F-4 pilot and his mechanic, who was asking how to become a pilot.

Pilot – “It takes a college education to fly this thing.”

Mechanic – “Well it takes a GED to work on it. I wonder if you’re coming back today.”

Nice!

[M2]

What's the old joke?

Air Force planes are designed by people with doctorates

Tested by people with graduate degrees

Flown by people with undergraduate degrees

Maintained by people with high school degrees

Or something like that. It's been a long day and I can't think straight. I should be drinking (more)...

Cheers! M2

[Guest JorryFright21]

"Though I fly through the valley of death I shall fear no evil; for I am at 80,000 feet and climbing"

Sign at the entrance to Kadena SR-71 ops building

Huh, that's our building now. Piece of crap! Cool history though.

[Guest xtndr50boom]

Huh, that's our building now. Piece of crap! Cool history though.

Yup, the CIA built your bldg in the late 60s. Humidity and salt water certainly help preserve the buildings and keep them in their original turgid grey/tan luster. I was walking around the 909th a few months ago.... jesus christ. At least there's no asbestos in my building. And the pigeons seem to be very accomodating and congeneal, unlike the banana spiders there!

[Guest 89 Ride]

One I've used a few times:

"You can only tie the Low altitude record"

[sky_king]

One I've used a few times:

"You can only tie the Low altitude record"

That depends on how you look at it.

https://ejectionsite.com/eunderh2o.htm

[Whitman]

Engine Failure at night in a Cessna: Turn on the landing light before impact, if you don't like what you see, turn it off

Engine Failure in a light twin: Good engine only gets you to the crash scene faster

[Steve Davies]

My favourite of all time comes from the 1977 AIMVAL:

F-14 pilot Joe "Hoser" Strapa was pitted against a USN Adversary in a 1-v-1 scenario. The indicated engagement would be ‘guns only’.

Strapa VIDed and killed the his opponent with a Fox One on both passes.

In the debrief, the angry Adversary pilot challenged the Tomcat Driver’s ‘cheating’ asking, "Hoser, what the hell happened to credibility?"

Hoser, with appropriate thumb gestures accompanying his response, replied "Credibility is down, kill ratio is up!"

It's in one of my books, so it must be true!

[pawnman]

That depends on how you look at it.

https://ejectionsite.com/eunderh2o.htm

Wild story. I hope I never have to use the training they gave us at P'Cola, but those instructors were top-notch and definitely taught us well.

[Insubordinate & Churlish]

Airspeed, brains, or altitude.

Two of the three are required for flight.

Edited November 10, 2007 by C-130 Hopeful

[Guest BritCabDriver]

After an RAF F-4 had actually shot down an RAF Jaguar during TACEVAL in Germany in the 80s, the Germans also playing were heard to say

"We're going home now, the British are playing for real!"

[LT4Life]

"Flying is hours on hours of boredom climaxed by moments of absolute fear"

[Guest 89 Ride]

That depends on how you look at it.

https://ejectionsite.com/eunderh2o.htm

I'm fairly certain that someone has flown below sea level...i.e. in Death Valley. Cool story nevertheless.

[sky_king]

Death Valley is <0 MSL though. I think <0 AGL is more impressive.

[Guest IncompletePete]

"I hated being a pilot, but I was too lazy to work and too nervous to steal"

[StoleIt]

Airspeed: Speed of an airplane. Deduct 25% when listening to a Navy pilot.

"Eagles may fly, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

"I am a Pilut...I am a Pillot...I am a Pilyut...Damn...I fly airplanes!"

As a pilot, only two bad things can happen to you:

A. One day you will walk out to the aircraft knowing that it is your last flight.

B. One day you will walk out to the aircraft not knowing that it is your last flight.

And found these after some light googling:

As heard from ORD's (O'Hare's) tower: "You're gonna have to key the mike. I can't see you when you nod your head."

"Put your compass on 'E' and get out of my airspace."

"Climb like you're life depends on it ... because it does."

"Request Runway 27 Right."

"Unable."

"Approach, do you know the wind at six thousand is 270 at fifty?"

"Yeah, I do, and if we could jack the airport up to fifty-five hundred you could have that runway. Expect 14 Right."

[Guest Dunce]

I recently read a quote by Jerry R Caddick that started with "Where we work..." It was a pretty cool quote and google cant find it for me. I was hoping someone had it or knew it.

Essentially it speaks about pilots flying alone and potentially dying alone in the air but a fraternity on the ground.

Thanks for the help.