Quotations on flying 🦅 airplanes ✈️ and being a pilot 👨🏼✈️ Lovingly compiled by Dave English. On the web since 1996.
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#B747 #britishairways #teamwork #flying #airlinepilot
“I was always brought up to expect the aeroplane might break any minute.’’
Captain Eric Moody, British Airways, in a brilliant interview about airmanship and teamwork: flightsafetyaustralia.com/20…
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#safety #avgeek #luck #aviation
“The first aim of this company is absolute reliability of machines and safety to passengers. It is only on those conditions that commercial aviation can be built.”
Wilmot Hudson Fysh, Qantas founder, 1922.
flightsafetyaustralia.com/20…
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RIP Legend
“Reach for the golden ring
Reach for the sky
Baby just spread your wings
We'll get higher and higher
Straight up we'll climb
We'll get higher and higher
Leave it all behind
youtu.be/u5JdDDxqikU
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What I like best about flying is the freedom it affords to navigate an ocean of air and see the earth from a wider perspective. I never tire of the beauty of the earth by day or the sky by night. #PilotsPerspective #NationalAviationDay @NASA
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Fortunately some kisses are still permitted... 😊 Until we welcome you again aboard, we pamper and spoil our aircraft 🥰 We look forward to seeing you soon. Have a great week! ✈️
#AirBelgium #SimplyFlyAway
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“It doesn't matter if you're flying a PA-28 or an MD82, or a seaplane, ski-plane or sailplane. In the flying business, we play for keeps.”
@Dave_Unwin, @Pilot_mag's flight test editor, December 2019.
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“Are we vulnerable to single AOA sensor failures with the MCAS implementation or is there some checking that occurs?”
Some #Boeing #B737 pilots knew you always want a backup, email from December 2015. wsj.com/articles/boeing-ceo-…
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“Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.”
~ Neil Armstrong.
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Margaret Hamilton, leader of the MIT team that created the Apollo 11 onboard flight software:
“It’s a good idea for the pilot to know what their options are!”
#737MAX #pilotlife #avgeek #safety theguardian.com/technology/2…
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A highlight of my vacation was getting to fly a 1930's Tiger Moth @TigerClubUK. That's me in the front seat. The instructor said this was the perfect trainer as it was “easy to fly, hard to fly well”. Well, I proved that.
And on reflection, it's true for lots of piloting stuff.
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“We’re the last line of defence to being in that smoking hole, and we need the knowledge.”
- American Airlines’ pilot and union rep, recorded meeting with Boeing about lack of MCAS information and training. #pilotlife #safety #normalaccident cbsnews.com/news/boeing-737-…
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“Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems.”
~ Bernard Ziegler, #testpilot #fighterpilot VP engineering #Airbus quoted in 2009 book 'Fly by Wire' #pilotlife #airlinepilot
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Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, when often old and simpler is far better. Split second decisions are....
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....needed, and the complexity creates danger. All of this for great cost yet very little gain. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want Albert Einstein to be my pilot. I want great flying professionals that are allowed to easily and quickly take control of a plane!
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“Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.”
~ Richard Hakluyt, 1589.
As a quick piloting quote, these words ring true across five centuries. But there’s a lot more here than just a two-second #seamanship meme: innerairmanship.com/blog/201…
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Thinking about this quote while reading NTSB report on a seemingly preventable fatal Cirrus accident. Slipping and stalling in the traffic pattern. (kathrynsreport.com/2017/01/f….)
The pilot was an experienced supersonic B-1 pilot and recent graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School.
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“It's a machine and you're trying to figure out the machine … then all of a sudden you're the asshole who's about to orphan his kid.”
~ Elliot Seguin, engineer, air racer and test pilot. Talking flying in cool T6 aerobatic video with @FlightChops youtube.com/watch?v=p7rkIPPj…