Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Only nine years before the Wright brothers’ famous first flight, Hargrave lifted himself 4.9 metres (16 feet) off the ground in a… — Jen Fraser Copy Share Image
I have so many miles and I've been flying for so long that every time I fly, it's first class. It's one… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
I'm so much more at ease now than when I was flying as Bob. Then, I was OCD about everything, always checking… — Zoey Tur Copy Share Image
My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
For some reason, BASE jumping is misunderstood and our government forbids it and makes it illegal in most every place in the… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
“For some reason, these days we tend to downplay the importance of aggression, of taking risks, of barreling forward. It’s probably because… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around… — Yves Rossy Copy Share Image
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're… — Tony Fernandes Copy Share Image
We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment… — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
“I’m surprised there isn’t a jet airplane designed in the shape of a brick. Some people (aeronautical engineers) might say that’s because… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Airlines need staff to fly and maintain their aircraft. They need to pay applicable taxes and gate fees. They need to buy… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
I got my first pilot license, an airplane private pilot license, in 1997 for the purpose of going to pick up my… — Lorenzo Lamas Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if… — Cory Lidle Copy Share Image
Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Forty years ago, Richard Branson, who ultimately founded Virgin Air, found himself in a similar situation in an airport in the Caribbean.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In most every other country, 'body flying' more commonly known as BASE jumping is legal and looked upon as a beautiful art.… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and… — John Mica Copy Share Image
The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no - and you can't find any… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying,… — Luca Parmitano Copy Share Image
Today, the U.S. fleet has shrunk to just four main carriers, which control 80 percent-plus of the U.S. market. No wonder passengers… — Paul Solman Copy Share Image
'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane... received… — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
“There is a fraud going on in the airlines regarding bumping passengers from their flights. A passenger that is bumped from their… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack… — John Trevor Godfrey Copy Share Image
Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds.… — William Langewiesche Copy Share Image
