Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ..I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing!
- Sign over the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Japan.
You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.
- Paul F. Crickmore - test pilot
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.
- From an old carrier sailor
If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe
When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.
Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club.
Progress in airline flying: now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant.
Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.
A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication.
I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous.
When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten.
Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day.
The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.
-Attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot
A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum.
-Jon McBride, astronaut
If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it; ride the #%&*$# down.
- Ernest K. Gann, author & aviator
Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you.
The three best things in life are a good landing, a good orgasm, and, a good bowel movement. The night carrier landing is one of the few opportunities in life where you get to experience all three at the same time.
- sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970.
If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to.