Viper Pilot Quotes

“In fact, the only way to keep a fighter pilot from talking with his hands was to put either a drink or a woman in them.”
― Dan Hampton, Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat

“In the end, if you make it, you're left with the greatest prizes of all: the quiet respect of your peers and the knowledge that you have nothing left to prove to anyone but yourself. pg.88”
― Dan Hampton, Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat

“So, it was wear a cloth tie and sit in an office for forty years - or cheat death and fly fast jets. No contest, really." Pg. 31”
― Dan Hampton, Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat

“His gift was instilling the "Big Picture" in his students, i.e., teaching us to not get mired down in minutiae but be aware of all that was going on around us." Pg. 35”
― Dan Hampton, Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat

“You know that “nowhere” place everyone is always in the middle of? That would be Enid, Oklahoma.”
― Dan Hampton, Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat