Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy… — Ilan Ramon Copy Share Image
Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand. — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. — Albert Scott Crossfield Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible… — George W. Melville Copy Share Image
If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list.… — Charles H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the… — James M. Loy Copy Share Image
If you are like many people, flying may be a large portion of your carbon footprint. Over all, the aviation industry accounts… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Infantry, Artillery, Aviation - all that we have - are yours to dispose of as you will. . . . I have… — John J. Pershing Copy Share Image
Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
“As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance… — Cornelia Fort Copy Share Image
A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there… — Henry H. Arnold Copy Share Image
Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find… — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them. — Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell Copy Share Image
Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks? — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“It only took one flight with a budget airline to discover how horrible their airline was!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
