There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does. — Robert Six Copy Share Image
The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire. — Charles Kingsford Smith Copy Share Image
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work. — Pierre-Georges Latecoere Copy Share Image
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into… — Bob Blumer Copy Share Image
In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as… — Philip Gibbs Copy Share Image
I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come… — Howard Hughes Copy Share Image
We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night She'd tell me to make a wish I'd wish we both could fly. — James McMurtry Copy Share Image
We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough… — Deborah Hersman Copy Share Image
Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation. — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
Black people don't hijack planes, alright? Now I'll be the first to admit, we steal a lot of stuff, but we do… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject.… — Louise Thaden Copy Share Image
Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
“As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard 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
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
As the years go by, he returns to this invisible world rather than to earth for peace and solace. There also he… — Ernest K. Gann 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
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