Fire on the Flight Deck Quotes

“The Intruder seemed like a house on wheels coming directly at me. The pilot and bombardier/navigator in the seat next to him sat nearly ten feet up. A pilot with a million dollar education in a twenty-two-million-dollar airplane relied on me, a nineteen-year-old kid with a high school diploma.”
― Darren Sapp, Fire on the Flight Deck

“Donley loved the flight deck. It excited him. A rush. He had some misgivings about navy life, but he craved the action on deck. Few things compared to the raw power of an F-14 Tomcat in afterburner. The intense heat. The smell of jet fuel. It felt like a monster truck rally with him in the middle of the action.”
― Darren Sapp, Fire on the Flight Deck

“The ‘performers’ do their act with all the grace of ballet dancers, seemingly oblivious to the danger around them.” Brad Durfee, referring to flight deck workers in Stars and Stripes, August 16, 1975.”
― Darren Sapp, Fire on the Flight Deck