The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions. — Gunther Rall Copy Share Image
This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed. — Harry Frank Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no… — William Anders Copy Share Image
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over… — Glenn Curtiss Copy Share Image
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know… — Amelia Earhart 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
As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s)… — Tom Gross Copy Share Image
Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed,… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
“And this was the greatest gift that aviation could ever give me; not the sense of freedom but the sense of permanence,… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100… — Hanna Reitsch Copy Share Image
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
If a kid is really interested in wanting to have a career in aviation, he's actually learning and getting some of the… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
Flying does not rely so much on strength, as on physical and mental co-ordination. — Raymonde de Laroche Copy Share Image
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