If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful. — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
I'd manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else. — Louis R. Chenevert Copy Share Image
A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. — C. Maxwell Stanley Copy Share Image
Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all. — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
From the air, the distinctions between residential, commercial, and industrial areas are easily understand while town, county, and state boundaries go unseen. — Oliver Gillham Copy Share Image
I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes.… — Harry Broadhurst Copy Share Image
I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff? — George Carlin Copy Share Image
No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace,… — Pappy Boyington Copy Share Image
The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one… — Gabriele d'Annunzio Copy Share Image
We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced… — Richard van der Riet Woolley Copy Share Image
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights. — Joseph Force Crater Copy Share Image
Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee. — William K. Kershner Copy Share Image
Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere. — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation. You just start off with a large fortune. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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