A Quote by Temple Grandin

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin
American - Educator
Born: August 29, 1947

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

Burt Rutan

It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.

David Blatt

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

Erika Christensen

Everything that wasn't invented by God is invented by an engineer.

Prince Philip

In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him.

Scott Adams

As a pilot, I can tell you drones may be a lot of things; airplanes they are not.

Robin Hayes

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

Loren Cunningham

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

Bob Woodward

I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.

Allison Schroeder

The family on my mom's side, their whole business is inventing and pitching stuff. My grandfather is in infomercials. He's a pitchman, so if you're ever watching TV late at night, you'll probably see him pitching knives. My great-grandfather also invented the plastic cheese grater.

Ashley Tisdale

When you have an older group of players, they play on automatic pilot a lot of the time, but with youngsters, you have more intuition.

Louis van Gaal

You have to remember everything you've created. But then comes a moment when it's all automatic pilot, where it all comes together and you don't have to think about it any more.

John Travolta

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

Adolf Galland

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

Bill Engvall

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

Sonia Johnson

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

Michael P. Anderson

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