The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions. — Gunther Rall Copy Share Image
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight. — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
Airshow flying is tough, it's even tougher if you do something stupid. Don't do nuthin dumb! — Ralph Royce Copy Share Image
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well… — John P. Jumper Copy Share Image
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more… — Lisa Nowak Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live . . . but go higher - above the… — Jacqueline Cochran Copy Share Image
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
It was no picnic despite what anyone might say later . . . . Most of us were pretty scared all the… — Colin S. Gray Copy Share Image
whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I came to admire this machine which could lift virtually any load strapped to its back and carry it anywhere in any… — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
There is no theory that would guide us through interplantary space to another world even if we could control our departure from… — Forest Ray Moulton Copy Share Image
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs. — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area. — Adolph Malan Copy Share Image
Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills. — Pancho Barnes Copy Share Image
We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off. — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
