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Top 15 Ernest K. Gann Quotes (2025 Update)

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.”

1. “Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.”

2. “I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.”

3. “Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “It’s remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.”

4. “It’s remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “Rule books are paper – they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.”

5. “Rule books are paper – they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.”

6. “Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “It doesn’t look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, ‘My God, do you think we’ll ever learn to fly anything this big?’”

7. “It doesn’t look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, ‘My God, do you think we’ll ever learn to fly anything this big?’”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl’s dress.”

8. “There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl’s dress.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.”

9. “Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “MaCleod, since you’ve flown the SeaBee a lot you’ll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!”

10. “MaCleod, since you’ve flown the SeaBee a lot you’ll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It’s the one you can’t train for that kills you.”

11. “The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It’s the one you can’t train for that kills you.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.”

12. “Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “In referance to flying through thunderstorms; “A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At the time of incident he would gladly return the entire amount for the privilege of being elsewhere.”

13. “In referance to flying through thunderstorms; “A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At the time of incident he would gladly return the entire amount for the privilege of being elsewhere.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “I sit far back in my seat, my right foot braced comfortably against the instrument panel, listening to the steady thrumming of the engines, content to reflect that I have at least come a long way since my barnstorming days. Not so long ago, in a rock-fenced field nearby, a young man named Blauvelt stepped away from a sputtering biplane and first sent me into the sky alone.”

14. “I sit far back in my seat, my right foot braced comfortably against the instrument panel, listening to the steady thrumming of the engines, content to reflect that I have at least come a long way since my barnstorming days. Not so long ago, in a rock-fenced field nearby, a young man named Blauvelt stepped away from a sputtering biplane and first sent me into the sky alone.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a war. Tomorrow they will be flying a peace, for, regardless of the world’s condition, flying is their life.”

15. “The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a war. Tomorrow they will be flying a peace, for, regardless of the world’s condition, flying is their life.”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time?”

16. “My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time?”

— Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann Quote: “The only characteristic all airliners share is that upon proper urging they are normally capable of leaving the earth’s surface.”

17. “The only characteristic all airliners share is that upon proper urging they are normally capable of leaving the earth’s surface.”

— Ernest K. Gann

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