The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft. — Willie Walsh Copy Share Image
“This is our foxhole, and in foxholes, sometimes faith is all you've got.” — James R. Hannibal Copy Share Image
Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any… — Jacqueline Auriol Copy Share Image
Won't it be nice when all this beastly killing is over, and we can enjoy ourselves and not hurt anyone? I hate… — Albert Ball Copy Share Image
“In aviation, 'good enough' is basically a four-letter word. In business, it's a slow, insidious killer” — Greg Born Copy Share Image
The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as… — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds. — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like… — Erich Warsitz Copy Share Image
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky,… — Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra Copy Share Image
Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all… — Gavin Lyall Copy Share Image
The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place… — Elliott White Springs Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment… — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
I think the first what would happen in the immediate wake of a hard Brexit is a lack of confidence in UK… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and… — Pauline Gower Copy Share Image
If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
When I'm up in the air, it's like I'm closer to heaven; I can't explain the feeling. — Officer Jeffrey Gagliano Copy Share Image
Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do. — Theodore von Karman Copy Share Image
Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver. — Collett E. Woolman Copy Share Image
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
