Your favorite Aviation quote

Real World Aviation
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Bit of a blank slate, there have been topics like this before, but for sake of compiling them all just them here eaven if that thread already has it. Just make sure it wasn’t posted here, to double check go to search, type in you’re quote, and tick the “search this topic button”

Here’s mine, I have it written on a board sim I see it every morning when I get out of bead, and venture out of my room:

“When everything seems to be against you, rember that Aircraft take off against the wind, not with it” Henry Ford

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My personal favorite:

  • “To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything.” - Otto Lilienthal

One for @RotorGuy

  • “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, 1947

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If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.
- Chuck Yeager

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“The coffee maker isn’t broken what a shock!” - Every Pilot who has a coffee maker onboard.

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“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

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“A mile of highway will take you 1 mile, but a mile of runway will take you almost anywhere”

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My other two favorites. Those are some excellent quotes.

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One of my favorites from the one and only Amelia Earhart- “You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.”

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“You can always go around.”

•Ken Dravis
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Affirmative.

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“Don’t crash,” - me
“Make your landings the same number of takeoffs,” - Unknown (by me)

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We’ll be in the Hudson. — Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger

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For flight attendants~

“Don’t crash, cos that’s the captains job”

I just came up with that on the spot…

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Not necessarily aviation themed but…

“If you find a job you love you will never have to work a day of your life”
Hence being a pilot ;)

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“The airplane stays up because it doesn’t have time to fall”
Orville Wright

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It must be
“You can always go around”
-InterXtra Aviation

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  1. What’s the difference between a pilot and a jet engine? The engine stops whining after they land

E -engines
T -turn
O - or
P - people
S - swim

  1. An F-100 Electronics Warfare Officer (EWO), the F-100’s back seater, said: “You want me to ride in the back of a two seat fighter with a teenage killer in the front seat? You Gotta Be Sh**ting Me!” and from that briefing is believed to come the original Wild Weasel slogan “YGBSM” as explained in Ted Spitzmiller’s book Century Series The USAF Quest for air supremacy 1950-1960 .
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“CARRY YOUR PASSION”
(quote by infiniteflight.com)

Wilco that, gladly!!

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For normal people, a house is called home, for people who like flying, a cloud is called home

Some random quote by me

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“You can always go around”

Edit:
Oh someone already did that…

Ummm…

:)