Flight Quotes - Page 2

• The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

  Richard Bach

  Art, Airplane, Machines

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.102, Dell

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• Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.

  Alan Shepard

  Worry, Cabins, Cleaning

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• And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Second Chance, Satellites, Happened

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• Lets take flight simulation as an example. If youre trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You dont have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

  Roy Romer

  Airplane, Trying, Example

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• One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and it will reduce the cost of rockets.

  Ralph Merkle

  Confidence, Air, Stronger

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.

  Paul Greengrass

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

  Jane Byrne

  Policy, Persons, Suburbs

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• NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Teacher, School, Space Flight

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• My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

  Sally Ride

  Airplane, Physics, Missions

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• I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

  Sally Ride

  Space, Floating, Middle

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• I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

  Izabella Scorupco

  World, Pilots, Helicopters

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• I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.

  Niki Lauda

  People, Vienna, Cost

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

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• This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

  Steve Fossett

  Want, Aviation, Endeavour

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• And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Busy, Spare Time, Documents

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• The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

  F. L. Lucas

  Atheism, Use, Panic

  F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

  John S. Pistole

  Goes On, Lines, Screening

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• The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

  Vance Packard

  Powerful, Creativity, Men

  Vance Packard (1991). “The Hidden Persuaders”

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• He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one

  Wally Schirra

  Apollo, Command

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• Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

  Robert Crippen

  Opportunity, Space, Tests

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". "NASA Direct" with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

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• Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

  Simon Newcomb

  Science, Men, Class

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• There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

  Bruce Schneier

  Excellence, Microsoft, Copies

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.333, John Wiley & Sons

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• The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

  Roy Wilkins

  Success, Sweet, Disappointment

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• The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

  Ai Weiwei

  Land, Cases, Constrain

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• Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother
  to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this
  gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else,
  Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Bird, Flying

  RICHARD BACH (1970). “JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL”

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• Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

  Tennessee Williams

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Long

  Tennessee Williams (1953). “Camino Real: A Play”, p.51, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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