Aviation Quotes · Page 10

Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

— Adolf Galland

It is not easy to be the best. You must have the courage to bear pain, disappointment, and heartbreak. You must learn…

— Betty Skelton Erde

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.

— Plautus

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

— William T. Piper

Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

— Ernest K. Gann

A free ride and free food are two of the three things no pilot ever turns down.

— Dick Rutan

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

— Alexander Pope

Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then?

— Bill Watterson

So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story…

— William Langewiesche

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my…

— John Eisenhower

Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.

— Felix Baumgartner

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

— Tony Fernandes

This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant…

— Chuichi Nagumo

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of…

— Igor Sikorsky

Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.

— Kingsley Wood

Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy.

— Alfred Kahn

Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.

— John Trevor Godfrey

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

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out…

— Jerrie Cobb

It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the…

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Louise Thaden