If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.

At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time.

I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.

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

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.