Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get… — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future. — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon .… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn… — Henri Mignet Copy Share Image
I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book,… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Buttons ... check. Dials ... check. Switches ... check. Little colored lights ... check. — Bill Watterson 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
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
Flying does not rely so much on strength, as on physical and mental co-ordination. — Raymonde de Laroche Copy Share Image
Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick… — Cecil Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot.… — Lynn Garrison 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
We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into… — Federico Pena Copy Share Image
