#pilots

Listen up, Nic," she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. "If you die on me out here, so help me I'll hold seances and pester you. I won't give you a moment's peace in the hereafter," she threatened in a fierce whisper. Gabrielle O'Hara, River of Dreams ↗

— Sharon K. Garner

#brazil #contemporary #rain-forest #romance #romantic-adventure

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#joy #like #pilots #special #take

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#close #did #fire #open #pilots

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

#i #pilots #said #tall #tested

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#first #five #flights #lost #most

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly. ↗

— Cory Lidle

#down #engine #failure #go #goes

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged. ↗

— Suzanne Somers

#before #career #company #cook #discouraged

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. ↗

— Kurt Student

#another #british #casualties #containers #contributed

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#circumstances #confident #dire #even #ever