You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That’s… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the… — Harold Payson Copy Share Image
Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass! — Ron McKeown Copy Share Image
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I… — Edward Smith 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
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
What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn… — Henri Mignet Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be… — Ross Macpherson Smith Copy Share Image
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over… — Glenn Curtiss Copy Share Image
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no… — William Anders Copy Share Image
I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future. — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it… — Seneca the Younger 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
It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is… — Jose Yacopi Copy Share Image
To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber Copy Share Image
Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air. — Richard Owen Cambridge Copy Share Image
If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon," cried Rozier. "Some fire,… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done. — Joe Sutter Copy Share Image
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The three most common expressions in aviation are, 'Why is it doing that?, 'Where are we?' and 'Oh Crap.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity. — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just… — C. R. Smith Copy Share Image
For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
