What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest. — Alfred Kahn Copy Share Image
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space. — Wilson Greatbatch Copy Share Image
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and… — Neil H. McElroy Copy Share Image
I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job… — Nicole Malachowski Copy Share Image
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book,… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for… — Mark Rosenker Copy Share Image
Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy… — P. E. Cleator Copy Share Image
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy:… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Airshow flying is tough, it's even tougher if you do something stupid. Don't do nuthin dumb! — Ralph Royce Copy Share Image
An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence… — Sam Hughes Copy Share Image
More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999. — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only… — Alexander P. de Seversky Copy Share Image
Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night. — Mickey Rupp Copy Share Image
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost… — Adam Thomson Copy Share Image
There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs. — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more… — Lisa Nowak Copy Share Image
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well… — John P. Jumper Copy Share Image
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake." — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors. — Carl Andrew Spaatz Copy Share Image
