What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

All that I am ... I owe to the Air Force.

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.