This is our foxhole, and in foxholes, sometimes faith is…

There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

— Beryl Markham

I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

— Amelia Earhart

I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play…

— Stephen Coonts

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

— Edward R. Murrow

Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

— Herb Kelleher

Aviators live by hours, not by days.

— T. H. White

This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without…

— Philip Alston

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged…

— Jean Batten

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

— Avi Arad

Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil.

— Don Burr

Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in…

— Amy Johnson

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run…

— Adolf Galland

The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.

— Len Morgan