Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight.… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
From the air, the distinctions between residential, commercial, and industrial areas are easily understand while town, county, and state boundaries go unseen. — Oliver Gillham Copy Share Image
The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.' — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of… — Glenn Curtiss Copy Share Image
I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear… — Katherine Stinson Copy Share Image
Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed.… — Dallas Campbell 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
The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle… — Oliver Stewart Copy Share Image
Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control. — Louis Bleriot Copy Share Image
It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline. — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
