The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.
I'd most likely be a helicopter pilot, or I'd own a really cool surf hotel somewhere on a beach.
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service.
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong. ' To learn to become a pilot is to learn - not to let oneself fly too slowly. Not to let oneself turn without accelerating. Not to cross the controls. Not to do this, and not to do that. . . . To pilot is negation.
The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.
Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.
I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.
You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather.
There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.
In the '97 pilot season [of Will & Grace ], I got the male lead on The Jenny McCarthy Show.
It's a terrible process, what you go through, during pilot season. All the shows turn themselves in and there is a good four to six weeks before you get phone call.
He [Erdogan] has crept up to the edge talking about mistakes by pilots. But he also knows that with leaders like himself and Vladimir Putin, apologies may not be the answer. Just look at Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized years ago to Erdogan over this incident off the coast of Gaza in which Turkish people died onboard an aid ship. And only just now is that relationship at least in talks to be improved.
Today it is even more important to dominate the. . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.