Aviation Quotes · Page 15

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

— T. E. Lawrence

A free ride and free food are two of the three things no pilot ever turns down.

— Dick Rutan

A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

— James Lighthill

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

— Ed Acker

I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

— Amelia Earhart

As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.

— Federico Pena

Flying is done largely with the imagination.

— Wolfgang Langewiesche

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will…

— Igor Sikorsky

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in…

— Richard Bach

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible."(1890-1973), American aviator”

— Eddie Rickenbacker

To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of…

— Giulio Douhet

The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not…

— Christopher Cockerell

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.

— Gene Cernan

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went…

— Edgar Mitchell

The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent…

— Dave Barry

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose…

— Cecil Beaton

At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The…

— Chuck Yeager

I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a…

— Robin Olds

I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of…

— Richard Bach

In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have…

— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye…

— Mike Harding

I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going…

— Jacqueline Cochran

Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés…

— Amy Johnson

What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted…

— Carl Sandburg

These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass…

— Charles Lindbergh

Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them…

— Amelia Earhart

So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are…

— Diane Ackerman

We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import…

— James Howard Kunstler

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

— Stanley Kunitz

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

— Jonathan Swift

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

— Felix Baumgartner

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

— Alexander Graham Bell

Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.

— Ernest K. Gann

Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

— Ernest K. Gann

“If you don't like what you see, stop looking.”

— Nancy Lopez

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road…

— Beryl Markham