Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.

The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

— C. Maxwell Stanley

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances…

— Walter Cunningham

The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.

— Ernest K. Gann

The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

— A. Scott Berg

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve…

— Charles Lindbergh

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.

— Louise Thaden

Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

— William T. Piper

I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced…

— William Langewiesche

There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death.…

— Robin Olds

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

— James Dickey

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people,…

— Bill Gates

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

— Michael Badnarik

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

— Yip Harburg

I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against them, charge…

— Charles Rumney Samson