#pilot

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. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#astronaut #being #best #better #business

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#being #business #healthiest #know #pilot

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#calm #pilot #sea #ship

I do admire the new breed of fictional female PI's. The ones who'll survive a throttling, a kidnapping, a punch in the kidneys from a Mafia goon and then wind up the evening making love to a helicopter pilot. In the helicopter. I think I need more time at the gym. ↗

— Cynthia Lawrence

#helicopter-pilots #love

When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#believes #comes #flight #going #keep

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all. ↗

— Izabella Scorupco

#famous #flight #had #helicopter #i

I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#been #cast #could #episode #expertise

I was a complete unknown when I did 'Karate Kid.' I'd just done a pilot for a TV show called 'Call to Glory.' And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would've been happy to be in a dog-food commercial. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#brought #call #called #commercial #complete

The pilot came back and said he had just heard that Kennedy was shot. ↗

— George Smathers

#came #had #heard #just #kennedy

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#did #first #first thing #horrific #i