Favorite Aviation Quote Thread

[ScudRunner-d95]

Might make this a sticky


Mine is my Signature


[font=verdana]Fly The Airplane As Far Into The Crash As Possible. - Bob Hoover[/font]

[vanNostrum]

'' Unable to control altitude.Unable to control airspeed.Unable to control heading.
Other then that everything is A OK"

Captain Kallita  Air flight 66

[GoBoy]

Mine is my profile signature below

Some background:
When Bud Anderson ( Yeagers best friend) was interviewed about Chuck , the interviewer asked .
" Hey Bud is Chuck Yeager the best pilot you've ever seen ? "

Buds reply ;  " Yup, Except when I'm shaving "

LOL  ....Love that line

[ScudRunner-d95]

I didn't know that story behind that haha thanks!

[digits]

A cheesy one:
[quote]
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”  ― Leonardo da Vinci [/quote]

Not sure about the historical accuracy, but hey, it sounds nice.

[ScudRunner-d95]

you know we fact check everything here at Scudrunners.com eh!  ;D

[cgzro]

"The whole nine yards"


Everybody knows what it means, almost nobody knows what it literally means.

[Colonel]

P-51 gun belt, of course!

Not my favorite airplane, truthfully.  Needed work.
Servo trim tabs on the ailerons, for starters.  And
different wingtips - you pull G, you lose horrendous
airspeed.  Truly wretched induced drag.

But then again, I don't know very much about aviation.

[Four Bars]

"This will work out alright in the end.
If it's not alright, this isn't the end."

[David MacRay]

I'm having trouble verifying this but..

Orville Wright,  "What? How about 3 out of 5?"