Neil Armstrong Quotes About Flight

Quotes about: Flight

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

  Neil Armstrong

  Joy, Flying, Special

  "In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility". Book by Francis French and Colin Burgess, September 2007.

• In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  Neil Armstrong

  Science, Flying, Survival

• He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

  Neil Armstrong

  Aviation, Flight, Casts

• History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

  Neil Armstrong

  Future, Space Flight, Technological Development

• Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

  Neil Armstrong

  Roles, Firsts, Flight

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

  Neil Armstrong

  Adventure, Wrinkles, Generations

• The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Goal, Interesting

  Interview at The New Space Race, August 2007.

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