The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I headed for this white mountain, but was caught in the wind and the mist . . . I followed the cliff… — Louis Bleriot Copy Share Image
All was glorious - a cloudless sky above, a most delicious view around. . . . How great is our good fortune!… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of… — Rose George Copy Share Image
During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is… — Ivy Lee Copy Share Image
Every day kill just one, rather than today five, tomorrow ten . . . that is enough for you. Then your nerves… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount… — Pappy Boyington Copy Share Image
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Although no definite reason for the accident has been established, modifications are being embodied to cover every possibility that imagination has suggested… — John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara Copy Share Image
The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear… — Carl Andrew Spaatz Copy Share Image
Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation,… — Roscoe Turner Copy Share Image
It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker… — Katherine Stinson Copy Share Image
In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a… — Katherine Stinson Copy Share Image
I say, technically, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out… — Peter Malam Brothers Copy Share Image
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of… — Bob Hoover Copy Share Image
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
