People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world. — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster. — John Trevor Godfrey Copy Share Image
Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.' — Adolph Malan Copy Share Image
The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in… — William T. Piper Copy Share Image
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity — Forest Ray Moulton Copy Share Image
Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on… — Michael Foale Copy Share Image
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Thou art an eagle, thou doest belong to the sky and not to the earth, stretch forth thy wings and fly. — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number… — Cornelia Fort Copy Share Image
On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department… — Neelie Kroes Copy Share Image
Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension… — Louis Pierre Mouillard Copy Share Image
Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I owe a quenchless debt to him who bade me seize my fate And hang it on the faith that I to… — Gill Robb Wilson Copy Share Image
You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It… — John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara Copy Share Image
My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and… — James Ira Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation. — Howard Hughes Copy Share Image
I don't fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person. — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work. — Pierre-Georges Latecoere Copy Share Image
