The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.
The time is gonna fly! You better make sure you're the pilot!
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.
I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.
I am the best bodyguard, because I'll take a bullet, I'll take a stab wound, I'll take a hit upside the head; I'm like a kamikaze pilot.
The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.
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.
The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.
When I moved to L. A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.
Josh Gad and I have been friends since the time he auditioned for Modern Family. I directed the pilot for that, and that's how we met.
Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.
You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.
Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.
If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down. That's sad. . . Too sad. . . To let the young men die beautifully, that's what Tokko is. To give beautiful death, that's called sympathy.
No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.
What do I tell the pilots to do?