Flight Quotes

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

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

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

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

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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.

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

I remember the first time I met [Andretti] I think we were on the same flight. It was probably three years ago and I think I went up and got his autograph and introduced myself.

You just find a spot by some trees and wait. Then you shoot them in flight.

I stress that a flight reconstruction of this size has never happened before in Greece and I'm of the impression that the whole scenario of this flight has never happened before in the world.

The air conditioning was off. The flight controllers were sitting there wiping sweat. If they were dealing with any spacecraft issues, which first day out of the box a lot of spacecraft have, you can't concentrate like that.

It was absolutely a routine flight for a routine activity. The weather was fit for flying.

The whole team is going to Tokyo and I'm stuck flying an economy domestic flight. Seriously, I'm pretty sad.

Today's flight is the culmination of the EZ-Rocket test series.

All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun fire and distant German voices.

They are just great, from the fact that they charge no penalties for changing a flight to their frequent-flier program. I know I sound like I work for them, but I swear I don't. I am just a big fan.

I don't see how he is a flight risk, especially when we are willing to surrender both of his passports and his green card.