#airplane

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#air force #airplane #canada #canadian #could

The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane. ↗

— Cory Lidle

#airplane #comfortable #feel #flying #i

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked. ↗

— Carolyn McCarthy

#allowed #asked #board #children #common

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#alternative #dependent #each #made #nations

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. ↗

— Sally Ride

#background #engineer #flight #i #like

I don't eat anything on an airplane. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#anything #eat #i

Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#airplane #cloud #computer #connected #eventually

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#attitude #cues #flew #had #his

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#angeles #as far as #band #been #columbia

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#humorous #sex #humor