I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before. — Elrey Borge Jeppesen Copy Share Image
I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground. — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night. — Mickey Rupp Copy Share Image
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only… — Alexander P. de Seversky Copy Share Image
An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence… — Sam Hughes Copy Share Image
More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999. — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II.… — Eileen Collins Copy Share Image
This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and… — Marie Marvingt Copy Share Image
The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I headed for this white mountain, but was caught in the wind and the mist . . . I followed the cliff… — Louis Bleriot Copy Share Image
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel.… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was ... disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If a kid is really interested in wanting to have a career in aviation, he's actually learning and getting some of the… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100… — Hanna Reitsch Copy Share Image
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty? — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other. — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on! — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
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