Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. — Neil Armstrong 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
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly. — Len Morgan 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
Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out… — Jerrie Cobb Copy Share Image
No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find… — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky,… — Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra Copy Share Image
Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of… — Glenn Curtiss Copy Share Image
Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel.… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani,… — Chuck Yeager 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
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
By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste;… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in… — William T. Piper Copy Share Image
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying. — Louise Thaden Copy Share Image
