Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was… — Pauline Gower Copy Share Image
Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out… — Peter Malam Brothers Copy Share Image
I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop.… — Gunther Rall Copy Share Image
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto.… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
“As an altitude researcher, I know the air turbulence is getting worse every year.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I've always been a dreamer...or let's just say I kept my options open. In my heart, I knew singing was gonna be… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one. — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the… — Harold Payson Copy Share Image
It got more exciting with each war. I mean the planes were going faster than hell when I was flying a Mustang,… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety. — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
