Linda Finch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

  • Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

  • Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

  • On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

  • I'm afraid of flying.

  • Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

  • 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.

  • But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

  • What do I tell the pilots to do?

  • You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.