Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective?… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that they demonstrate they can evacuate an… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always… — Michael P. Anderson Copy Share Image
I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees… — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
It's your duty to fly the airplane. If you get killed in it, you don't know anything about it anyway. Duty is… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Airports - they're not my idea of fun at all. Some of the staff are lovely, but you do always get one… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
“(Group~ OFFER) Does American offer assistance for group travel planning? Planning travel ((800))*301((46@29)) for a large group can be a complex undertaking,… — air Copy Share Image
“The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today… — Amruta Patil Copy Share Image
See, Sway, that’s what you get for flunking your pilot’s test six times…which I’m pretty sure is a record of some sort.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
“On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject.… — Louise Thaden Copy Share Image
I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was… — Jerry Doyle Copy Share Image
The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“A pilot can be too cautious. He can be too methodical. He reads and memorizes the specifications, knows the boundaries of the… — Robert Coram Copy Share Image
I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever,… — Shannon Lucid Copy Share Image
Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
“Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my… — Tom Glavine Copy Share Image
As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
We had an airplane, a Beechcraft Baron, that we - I had since 1981. And Annie [Glenn] and I both of had… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
“As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States… — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you -… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
“When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight. Airplanes don’t fall out of the sky like stones.… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“This is my second paragliding photo book. Flying photography really drives my life, which is a never-ending search as every day, in… — Jérôme Maupoint Copy Share Image
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