Great Quotes in Aviation Movies

[Doc]

One of my favorites....

Major T. J. "King" Kong: Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies. Now look, boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin'. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat. I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin' on you and by golly, we ain't about to let 'em down. I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for ever' last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let's get this thing on the hump - we got some flyin' to do.

Or this classic..
Major T. J. "King" Kong: Well, boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... but we got one little budge on them Rooskies. At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen!

[meflypretty]

Not quite an aviation movie, but the penguin pilots in Madagascar 2

"SIr, we may be out of fuel"
"What makes you think that?"
"We've lost engine 1, and engine 2 is no longer on fire!"

After the crash

"Kowalski, casualty report!"
"Only 2 passengers unaccounted for skipper"
"That's a number I can live with. Good landing boys. Who says a penguin can't fly!

[aileron]

"Slider, snnnff, you stink."
Top Gun 1986

[Blue Side Down]

"Don't worry, I crash better than anyone I know"
Air America 1990

[flying4dollars]

"Son...your ego is writing cheques your body can't cash!"

- Top Gun

[captainsweaty]

"What's the name of that truck driving school Mav... is it TruckMasters?"


"you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog sh*t out of Hong Kong"

-top gun
added later "is it multi-engine?"

"travellin' through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops boy"

-star wars

Ha fast ship you've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?
-Kevin Spacey as Christopher Walken as Han Solo
-SNL

[nite_owl]

So while we're discussing the movie one liners, does anyone know the origin of,
"Don't tell mama I'm a pilot. Tell her I'm a piano player in a whore house."?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Nite Owl.

[balfour]

We have clearance, Clarence. Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
— Cockpit crew in the movie 'Airplane.'

[balfour]

So while we're discussing the movie one liners, does anyone know the origin of,
"Don't tell mama I'm a pilot. Tell her I'm a piano player in a whore house."?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Nite Owl.

Mike Longe
CAL Hostage / Former SAT (Hat) CA
CMSgt, USAF (Ret)

[atpl53]

I'm a leaf on the wind, I'm a leaf on the wind"

Serenity

[atpl53]

'Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here.'

Kevin Bacon as John Swigert in Apollo 13

[Bushav8er]

To the greatest marine fighter pilot that ever crapped between two shoes! - The Great Santini 1979

Tell the crew they can sleep in the next world. - Air Force 1943

See, some peckerwood's gotta get the thing up. And some peckerwood's gotta land the son of a bitch. And that "peckerwood" is called a "pilot". - The Right Stuff 1983

Time was you could take real pride, in just getting there, flying used to be fun Lou, it really was. -
The Flight of the Phoenix 1965

[Puddle Jumper]

From "The Snow Walker"

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - Wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark or even eagle flew - And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee, Jr (1922 - 1941)

[ehbuddy]

Joe Patroni from Airport


That's one nice thing about the 707.

It can do everything BUT read.

[iflyforpie]

"If this bird goes down this is the safest place to be!"-Krist Novoselic while video-taping himself in an aircraft lav. Nirvana-Live Tonight, Sold Out.

[Connor M]

From Airplane!


Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

Steve McCroskey: Johnny, what can you make out of this?
[Hands him the weather briefing]
Johnny: This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl...

And from Dr. Strangelove:


Major T. J. "King" Kong: Stay on the bomb run, boys! I'm gonna get them doors open if it harelips ever'body on Bear Creek!

[flying4dollars]

Pretty much anything from Top Gun can be quoted.

"Tower Ghostrider requesting flyby"
"Negative Ghostrider the pattern is full"
"Time to buzz the tower Goose"

[culver10]

"Hey Billy, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

[SenyorJim]

Whap!!
nnnnngnng...
sniff

The Flying Deuces
Laurel and Hardy

[bombardierfixer]

"Talk to me goose."

[Mostly Harmless]

Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?
Ted Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified.

Hanging Lady: Nervous?
Ted Striker: Yes.
Hanging Lady: First time?
Ted Striker: No, I've been nervous lots of times.

Elaine Dickinson: There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

Rumack: Can you fly this plane, and land it?
Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.

Rumack: Captain, how soon can you land?
Captain Oveur: I can't tell.
Rumack: You can tell me. I'm a doctor.
Captain Oveur: No. I mean I'm just not sure.
Rumack: Well, can't you take a guess?
Captain Oveur: Well, not for another two hours.
Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?

Captain Oveur: Joey, have you ever been in a... in a Turkish prison?

Controller: I know but this guy has no flying experience at all. He's a menace to himself and everything else in the air... yes, birds too.

Rumack: Elaine, you're a member of this crew. Can you face some unpleasant facts?
Elaine Dickinson: No.

Rudy: Sir, they need you in the cockpit.
Stiker: The cockpit! What is it?
Rudy: It's the little room at the front of the airplane where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now.

Witness: Striker was the squadron leader. He brought us in real low. But he couldn't handle it.
Prosecutor: Buddy couldn't handle it? Was Buddy one of your crew?
Witness: Right. Buddy was the bombardier. But it was Striker who couldn't handle it, and he went to pieces.
Prosecutor: *Andy* went to pieces?
Witness: No. Andy was the navigator. He was all right. Buddy went to pieces. It was awful how he came unglued.
Prosecutor: *Howie* came unglued?
Witness: Oh, no. Howie was a rock, the best tailgunner in the outfit. Buddy came unglued.
Prosecutor: And he bailed out?
Witness: No. Andy hung tough. Buddy bailed out. How he survived, it was a miracle.
Prosecutor: Then Howie survived?
Witness: No, 'fraid not. We lost Howie the next day.
Prosecutor: Over Macho Grande?
Witness: No. I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande.

[Mostly Harmless]

Not quite an aviation movie, but the penguin pilots in Madagascar 2

"SIr, we may be out of fuel"
"What makes you think that?"
"We've lost engine 1, and engine 2 is no longer on fire!"

After the crash

"Kowalski, casualty report!"
"Only 2 passengers unaccounted for skipper"
"That's a number I can live with. Good landing boys. Who says a penguin can't fly!

Thanks for the good laugh.

[squawk]

Gregory Peck -Twelve O'Clock High;

Brig. Gen. Frank Savage: I'm just getting started. You're gonna stay right here and get a bellyful of flying. You're gonna make every mission. You're not air exec anymore. You're just an airplane commander. And I want you to paint this name on the nose of your ship: Leper Colony. Because in it you're gonna get every deadbeat in the outfit. Every man with a penchant for head colds. If there's a bombardier who can't hit his plate with his fork, you get him. If there's a navigator who can't find the men's room, you get him. Because you rate him

[CP]

Son Ive been on over a hundred missions and got shot down on every one of em. Come to think of it I've never landed an airplane!

Lloyd Bridges.
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[CP]

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