GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Tom Wolfe
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Who’s the best pilot you ever saw? … You’re lookin’ at him.
Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper
Played by Dennis Quaid, in the 1983 movie The Right Stuff, written by Philip Kaufman. The line is not in the original book by Tom Wolfe, but does sum up the fun-loving gung-ho attitude of the youngest of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.
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What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse?
Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff, 1979.
Military pilots and then, soon, airline pilots, pilots from Maine and Massachusetts and the Dakotas and Oregon and everywhere else, began to talk in that poker-hollow West Virginia drawl, or as close to it as they could bend their native accents. It was the drawl of the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff: Chuck Yeager.
Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff, 1979.
There are no accidents and no fatal flaws in the machines; there are only pilots with the wrong stuff.
Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff, 1979.
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