The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. — C. Maxwell Stanley Copy Share Image
I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights. — Joseph Force Crater Copy Share Image
Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all. — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful. — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization. — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
I have flown ValuJet, ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system. — Federico Pena Copy Share Image
The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault." — Donald J. Carty Copy Share Image
I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again. — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back.… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out? — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
I'm in control of things happening in my aviation career. And I'm not in my acting career. — Lorenzo Lamas Copy Share Image
Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings. — Alfred Kahn Copy Share Image
It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness… — George Will Copy Share Image
Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think… — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
The fascination of flight can't be expressed with words. But it really lies beyond the capabilities of human endeavor. Once you've experienced… — Friedrich Oblessor Copy Share Image
When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things.… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies,… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
No, he probably wouldn't mention it - except to another flier. Then they will talk for hours. They will re-create all the… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
