“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
Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic… — Juan Trippe 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
We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft. — Willie Walsh Copy Share Image
Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace,… — Pappy Boyington Copy Share Image
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in… — Charles Lindbergh 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
For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at… — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like… — Erich Warsitz Copy Share Image
As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going… — Pierre Clostermann Copy Share Image
I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple… — Brian Sandoval Copy Share Image
Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off. — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
