After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.
When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.
When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.
We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving.
If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again, I have seen aggressive action, even from a disadvantageous position, completely rout a powerful Nip formation.
No one ever asks me about Breeze O'Rourke! I did the pilot for[Payne] right after Jawbreaker, or at least right around the same time, and it was an Americanized version of Fawlty Towers. That was the first time I worked with John Larroquette, and it was definitely not the last time.
And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.
When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself
The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.
I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone
The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.
Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.
I was very burned out after Buffy. It was exhausting. It took me from essentially 18 on the pilot to being 24 and married when we finished. That show was my life. I was doing movies on the hiatuses and on weekends, but I needed to explore and live that gypsy lifestyle.
I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.
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.