No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“I have read stories of budget airlines stranding families and them having to pay $9,000 to get home!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any… — Jacqueline Auriol Copy Share Image
My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks? — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing… — Allan Haines Loughead Copy Share Image
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the… — Nevil Shute 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
We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have… — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane. — Stephen Coonts 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
