Quotes having the keyword Flight
I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.
by Izabella Scorupco (Actor, Polish , born in 1970) keywords: biggest, famous, flight, had, helicopter, most, pilots, trainer , world I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Statesman , Roman) keywords: achieved, back, becomes, character, come, flight, had, home, internal, moral, never, other, out, peace, put, same, scene, some, something, things, unsettled, went , where Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.
by Alan Shepard (Astronaut, American , born in 1923) keywords: cabin, cleaning, course, delighted, flight, get, had, hatch, how, inside, over, still, up , worry The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.
by Alan Shepard (Astronaut, American , born in 1923) keywords: fact, flight, forces, had, just, matter, minutes, perfectly, period, rather, rocket, short, survive, time , worked Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.
by Alan Shepard (Astronaut, American , born in 1923) keywords: anybody, astronaut, being, best, better, business, challenge, doing, ever, experienced, flight, flown, fly, had, keep, led, more, pilots, recognized, test , then You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.
by Alan Shepard (Astronaut, American , born in 1923) keywords: before, being, busy, doing, done, excited, flight, going, many, occurs, real, sense, simulator, soon , times You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
by Robert Smith (Musician, English , born in 1959) keywords: ballet, drink, eight, flight, go, hour, onstage, out, pass, then , well Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
by Peter Straub (Writer, American , born in 1943) keywords: children, dart, during, emerged, ether, flight, new, puerto, rico, wife , york We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.
by Bob Taft (Politician, American , born in 1942) keywords: america, another, attack, confronted, courageously, defeating, flight, forget, heroes, never, our, passengers, planned, terrorists, times , will You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
by Paul Theroux (Novelist, American , born in 1941) keywords: crash, define, flight, food, get, good, grateful, hijacked, late, nauseated, negatives, throw, up , weren We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.
by Todd Tiahrt (Politician, American , born in 1951) keywords: almost, buildings, burning, capitol, certainly, down, flight, heroes, including, inside, into, laid, lives, others, passengers, ran, remember, rescue, save, their, those, trapped , us For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
by Leonardo da Vinci (Artist, Italian , born in 1452) keywords: been, earth, eyes, flight, long, once, return, tasted, turned, walk, will , your The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.
by Roy Wilkins (Activist, American , born in 1901) keywords: disappointments, disengagement, easy, flight, hard, jumps, long, our, share, short, success, sweet, talk, well, winning , work Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher, Austrian , born in 1889) keywords: always, clear, even, flight, free, get, great, involved, over, partial, problem, problems, single, still, take, view, where , whole A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
by Orville Wright (Inventor, American , born in 1871) keywords: air, dart, end, ended, feet, flight, hundred, into, little, over, point, rose, sudden, track , which The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
by Orville Wright (Inventor, American , born in 1871) keywords: account, air, balanced, being, center, control, course, difficult, down, due, erratic, exceedingly, experience, flight, front, handling, irregularity, lack, machine, near, partly, rudder, too , up With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
by Orville Wright (Inventor, American , born in 1871) keywords: acquired, already, been, even, first, flight, flights, flown, had, hardly, knew, knowledge, last, machine, making, mile, safe, skill, strange, ten, think, thousands, today, twenty-seven, wind, would , years Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
by Chuck Yeager (Aviator, American , born in 1923) keywords: barrier, because, end, experience, flight, had, knowledge, later, mission, our, real, realized , sky