I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes. — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
“Calling 911 for a police officer when an airline is engaging in extortion with you is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That’s… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city. — John Thomason 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
Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like… — Erich Warsitz Copy Share Image
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous… — Jerome Lalande Copy Share Image
Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
No, he probably wouldn't mention it - except to another flier. Then they will talk for hours. They will re-create all the… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the… — David Lasser Copy Share Image
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies,… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
