Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire. — Charles Kingsford Smith Copy Share Image
I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does. — Robert Six Copy Share Image
Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich. — Tony Fernandes Copy Share Image
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream.… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete. — Oliver Stewart Copy Share Image
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out… — Jerrie Cobb Copy Share Image
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I read, studied, and learned everything I could find about aviation. It was my greatest desire to become a pilot. I could… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it… — César Vallejo 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
At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to… — Jules Vedrines Copy Share Image
There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was… — Pauline Gower Copy Share Image
And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live… — Cecil Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick… — Cecil Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that… — Werner J. A. Dahm Copy Share Image
One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again. — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service. — James M. Landis Copy Share Image
