“I may bend your previous airplane, but I'll get it down.”— Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, Ted Striker, Robert Hays, imdb.com
“There is a woman on the wing, I saw her, there is something they're not telling us!”— Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Annie Walker, Kristen Wiig, imdb.com
“Flight Attendant: Sir, I'm going to have to ask that you turn off your cellular phone. Toby: We're flying in a Lockheed Eagle Series L-1011. Came off the line ten months ago. Carries a Sim-5 transponder tracking system. And you're telling me I can still flummox this thing with something I bought at…”— Aaron Sorkin, Toby Ziegler, Richard Schiff, imdb.com
“If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.”— Ross Perot, ranker.com
“I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact the best, most skillful pilot has the most ex…”— Chuck Yeager, inspirationalstories.com
“When it started, I had about 20,000 pilots donate their aircraft and fuel so we could fly 1 million kids by Dec. 17, 2003 (the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight), ... I flew the millionth one at the Nevada County Airport.”— Chuck Yeager, inspirationalstories.com
“Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don’t do, you don’t believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.”— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com
“I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.”— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com