Famous Quotes made by pilots

Chris_Tydlacka · 11 July 2001, 05:57 PM

I was reading an article of famous quotes made by famous people. I was wondering If anyone knows any good quotes by pilots. Thanks

11 July 2001, 06:17 PM

"Darn!"

11 July 2001, 06:50 PM

I don't know what you are looking for exactly, but there is no quote about any aviator that stirs me more than this, written by

Harold Hartney about

Frank Luke. Luke will always have his critics, but I doubt if many would disagree with Hartney's sentiments.

"Man, how that kid could fly! No one, mind you, no one, had the sheer contemptuous courage that boy possessed. I know he's been criticized for being such a lone-hander, but, good Lord, he won us priceless victories by those very tactics. He was an excellent pilot and probably the best flying marksman on the Western Front. We had any number of expert pilots and there was no shortage of good shots, but the perfect combination, like the perfect specimen of anything in the world, was scarce. Frank Luke was the perfect combination."

11 July 2001, 10:05 PM

"Flamerinoes - four! Sizzle-sizzle wonk!"
Edward "Mick" Mannock
(he knew what he was doing)

Ginger. · 12 July 2001, 12:56 AM

"I hope he sizzled all the way down."
Mick Mnnock's grief on hearing about the tragic end of Richthofen.

mike_baram · 12 July 2001, 03:20 AM

"Ach, Scheiss!" -

Werner Voss

12 July 2001, 06:18 AM

"Always remember your altitude and relation to the runway; otherwise it will bite you!" Words spoken to a would be glider pilot by Mr. R. Opitz, flight instructor, sometime rocket aircraft testpilot, member Colonel Boyds' "X" team, etc.

12 July 2001, 07:47 AM

'Ahh, @#$%'

Apparently the final words most often heard on aircraft Cockpit Voice Recorders after a crash.

Ed · 12 July 2001, 08:20 AM

After splashing down into te Irish Sea
on April 18, 1919, and seeing his water-
logged plane, The Shamrock would never fly again, Major J. C. Woods said, "The
Atlantic flight is pipped."

Kirby · 12 July 2001, 08:22 AM

Not a quote from a pilot but still appropriate. This really happened. One American Infantryman to another as they stood watching German Infantry marching, in perfect order, back to Germany after the 1918 armistice: "Vic, in twenty years we'll be right back here again. They ain't been whipped enough yet."