Helicopters Quotes

• If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Funny, Life, Flower

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• You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

  Amelia Earhart

  Airplane, Sky, Tree

  "How Aerial Photography Changes A Photographer’s Perspective" by Heather Hummel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2014.

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• The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Dream, Horse, Men

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• Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Rejects, Vibrate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Saving, Pages, Would Be

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• This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

  Harry Reasoner

  Airplane, Ironic, Different

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• Helicopters make everything better.

  Gage Munroe

  Source: collider.com

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• The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

  Morley Safer

  Travel, Views, World

  Morley Safer (1990). “Flashbacks: on returning to Vietnam”, Random House Inc

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• I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Airplane, Flying

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• The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.

  Harry Reasoner

  Airplane, Flying, Balance

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• Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

  Dave Barry

  Science, Animal, Mph

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• The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

  Harry Reasoner

  Airplane, Events, Different

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• This is just a hunch, but I bet airplanes think helicopters are assholes.

  Dana Gould

  Airplane, Thinking, Hunches

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• I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Sound, Annoying

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• The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Pilots, Aviation, Flight

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• A new helicopter service called Gotham Air is now offering users cheap flights from Manhattan to JFK or Newark airports that start at just $99. If there's two words I trust together in the same sentence, it's 'cheap' and 'helicopter.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Airports, Offering, Two

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• Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Steps, One Step At A Time, Should

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

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• The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.

  Dave Barry

  Numbers, Badness

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Mike Smith - living proof of the need for ejector seats in helicopters.

  Victor Lewis-Smith

  Needs, Proof, Mike

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• I'm quite scared of flying, and especially helicopters, I don't like them at all.

  Heidi Klum

  Flying, Scared

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• And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

  Treat Williams

  Planes

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• For a while I didn't have a car . . . I had a helicopter . . . no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [slow glance upward]

  Steven Wright

  Running, Justice, Car

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• I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Pilots, Becoming, Percent

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• A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Jobs, Nice, Want

  "Felix Baumgartner 'recuperating' after surviving jump from the edge of space" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

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