I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern. — Frank Lorenzo Copy Share Image
It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers. — C. R. Smith Copy Share Image
An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one. — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it… — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich. — Tony Fernandes Copy Share Image
You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time. — William Bushnell Stout Copy Share Image
Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words. — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into… — Federico Pena Copy Share Image
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is,… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Things which do you no good in aviation: The sky above you. The runway behind you. The fuel still in the truck.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of… — Glenn Curtiss Copy Share Image
Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages.… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
There's a lot of sensitivity about federal involvement in elections around the country. I think that it would be appropriate to consider… — Jeh Johnson Copy Share Image
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much… — George Cayley Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan… — John Brisben Walker Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots. — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
