Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth.… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch… — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand. — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy… — Ilan Ramon Copy Share Image
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
So long his name and face are lost in memory-s afterglow; Nor do I recollect of pride or joy or doubt or… — Gill Robb Wilson 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
“Aggressive airplane passengers probably have a bad case of Altitude Sickness. Many people are hypoxic at airplane cruising altitude. They would be… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
There is also a huge potential for developing the aviation and space industries. As you might have noticed we have launched a… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
They will speak of things that are spiritual and beautiful and of things that are practical and utilitarian; they will mix up… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the… — David Lasser Copy Share Image
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of… — Bob Hoover Copy Share Image
No, he probably wouldn't mention it - except to another flier. Then they will talk for hours. They will re-create all the… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service. — James M. Landis Copy Share Image
Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out… — Jerrie Cobb Copy Share Image
That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them. — Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell Copy Share Image
In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find… — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there… — Henry H. Arnold Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance… — Cornelia Fort Copy Share Image
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. — Albert Scott Crossfield Copy Share Image
