Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. — George MacDonald 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
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the… — Harold Payson Copy Share Image
Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass! — Ron McKeown Copy Share Image
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air. — Richard Owen Cambridge Copy Share Image
If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon," cried Rozier. "Some fire,… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done. — Joe Sutter Copy Share Image
Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The airline business is crazy. I've not been enamored with the industry in general. You can't depend on anybody and anything. It's… — Robert Brooks Copy Share Image
How does 2002 bombing accident in Afghanistan happen? In this awful case it took so many lives, and I want to assure… — Ray Henault Copy Share Image
I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop.… — Gunther Rall Copy Share Image
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
“It was ... disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel Copy Share Image
And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels… — Pierre Clostermann Copy Share Image
I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The best defence of the country is the fear of the fighter. If we are strong in fighters we should probably never… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too… — Harry Reasoner 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
Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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