Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of… — David Frost Copy Share Image
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you… — David McCampbell Copy Share Image
Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of… — Jerry O'Connell Copy Share Image
They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
It got more exciting with each war. I mean the planes were going faster than hell when I was flying a Mustang,… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn… — Henri Mignet Copy Share Image
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I… — Edward Smith Copy Share Image
The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle… — Oliver Stewart Copy Share Image
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward. — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat. — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy. — Alfred Kahn Copy Share Image
Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?" — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock. — Werner Molders Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth.… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch… — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other… — Elrey Borge Jeppesen Copy Share Image
Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple… — Brian Sandoval Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle. — Jacques Rosay Copy Share Image
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard. — Adolph Malan Copy Share Image
Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Naval aviation, they believed, was not inherently dangerous. Sure, there were risks, but if you were good—really good, like they were—nothing bad… — Robert Gandt Copy Share Image
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