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
If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it… — Graham Hawkes 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
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a… — Louise Thaden Copy Share Image
There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Infantry, Artillery, Aviation - all that we have - are yours to dispose of as you will. . . . I have… — John J. Pershing Copy Share Image
Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list.… — Charles H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
If you are like many people, flying may be a large portion of your carbon footprint. Over all, the aviation industry accounts… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the… — James M. Loy Copy Share Image
I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani,… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in… — William T. Piper 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
Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words. — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time. — William Bushnell Stout Copy Share Image
We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich. — Tony Fernandes Copy Share Image
You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream.… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete. — Oliver Stewart Copy Share Image
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich. — Tony Fernandes Copy Share Image
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Thou art an eagle, thou doest belong to the sky and not to the earth, stretch forth thy wings and fly. — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on… — Michael Foale Copy Share Image
For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity — Forest Ray Moulton Copy Share Image
It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city. — John Thomason Copy Share Image
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual… — Sigmund Freud 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
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Calling 911 for a police officer when an airline is engaging in extortion with you is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
