Looking for a good one line pilot/aviation saying

I would like to put a short (one or two line) aviation related saying on a plaque that I want to present to a retired AF pilot at a wing breaking ceremony. This is a tradition where a newly winged AF plot breaks his issued wings in half and presents one half to someone important; in my case a retired pilot. The generic "wing breaking" poem is long and a bit cheesy, and all the pilot sayings I've ever heard are too long. Unfortunately, I'm not creative to think of a short one myself. If anyone's got a short one I'd love to hear it.

 

Check Six?

 

One of my favorites "The older I get, the better I was.

 

"the last thing a pilot does prior to leaving an aircraft after making a gear up landing is to put the landing gear handle down"

 

"Cheated death again".

I say it to my PAX after every flight.

 

Remember there are old pilots and bold pilots. But no old bold pilots

 

This is a great one. This is what I'm looking for; something that sounds like wisdom, and fits the theme of someone starting a new career in aviation, and also finishing one (although he will still fly his personal plane). The other one I'm considering is "Keep the shiny side up, and the greasy side down."

 

"Pilots have been looking down at other people since 1903."

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Try this:
Great Aviation Quotes: Flying Cliches

 

Nah... works for cars but not planes.

 

Probably a little too long, but makes me smile when I think of it:

"Dad, when I grow up I want to be a pilot."
"I'm sorry son, you can't do both."

 

Lots of good ones at that link. Thanks!
Thanks to everyone else who provided suggestions as well.

 

Not sure how appropriate this one is but I learned it a long time ago...

Only the spirit of attack, born in the heart of a brave fighter pilot will bring success to any fighter aircraft no matter how highly developed it may be.

 

"Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man; landing is the first."

 

I'm sure its in the link

"Take-offs are optional, landings are not"

 

Too much fuel is only something you have if you're on fire...

(Navy specific): Flare to land, squat to pee...

Lead to new wingman: The only things I want to hear from you are, "2", "Lead, you're on fire" and "I'll take the fat one"

I have more, but am currently time-limited.

Cheers!

 

"I ran out of altitude, airspeed, and ideas all at the same time!"

 

That's a variation of what someone once said about an aircraft that had crashed into a mountain: "He ran out of altitude and information simultaneously."

 

Or "Whats a billy goat doing up here in this cloud?".

 

That's a good one. I remember seeing that in a cartoon. Pertinent living here next to the Continental Divide.

 

Some from the link get an involuntary chuckle...

Son, you let a stew ride your lap, next thing you know she'll want to talk on the radio. Then she'll want to land the plane. Give a woman an inch, she'll want the whole twelve. Thank God

Death is a small price to pay for looking **** hot

Two of the most dangerous things in the world are a South Georgia pulpwood truck, and a doctor in a split tail bonanza.

It's better to break ground and head into the wind than to break wind and head into the ground.

Please don't tell Mum I'm a pilot, she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.

Pilots believe in clean living. They never drink whiskey from a dirty glass.

It is far better to arrive late in this world than early in the next.



The real value of twin engine aircraft is it will double your chances of engine failure.

If it’s ugly, it’s British; if it’s weird, it’s French; and if it’s ugly and weird, it’s Russian


The three best things in life are a good landing, a good orgasm, and a good ****. A night carrier landing is one of the few opportunities to experience all three at the same time.

A kill is a kill.

He who sees first, lives longest.

Fighter pilots make movies, attack pilots make history.

In thrust I trust.

Jet noise: The sound of freedom.

I had a fighter pilot’s breakfast - two aspirin, a cup of coffee and a puke.


Fly it until the last piece stops moving.

The difference between a duck and a co-pilot? The duck can fly

A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become random in motion.

Do you see that propeller? Well, everything behind it revolves around money

Cessna pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around the microphone

 

OMG...There's a whole section on woman you can tell these were written when men were men and ..well.

An airplane will kill you quick . . . a woman takes her time.

Here's one for Mr. Parks

If it ain't Boeing — I ain't going.

 

"you can ride my tail anytime"
from Top Gun

 

Aircraft where it takes a college education to break it, and a high school education to fix it..

 

How about balls to the wall?