Flying does not rely so much on strength, as on physical and mental co-ordination. — Raymonde de Laroche Copy Share Image
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation. You just start off with a large fortune. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job… — Nicole Malachowski Copy Share Image
Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest. — Alfred Kahn Copy Share Image
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space. — Wilson Greatbatch Copy Share Image
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and… — Neil H. McElroy Copy Share Image
There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost… — Adam Thomson Copy Share Image
The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness,… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in," says he, with a grin, "'T the blackbird an' phoebe… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
I firmly believe a rising tide lifts all boats. I think having Airbus only grows and brings more attention to Alabama's entire… — Bradley Byrne Copy Share Image
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is… — Bernard Ziegler Copy Share Image
Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere. — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee. — William K. Kershner Copy Share Image
Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image