The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
It was like I need something else in my life, and that's when I kind of went back to my childhood interest… — Jared Isaacman Copy Share Image
This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth. — Juan Trippe Copy Share Image
The spacious firmament on high, And all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking. — Brian R. Norris Copy Share Image
Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich. — Robert L. Priddy Copy Share Image
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want… — Gordon Bethune 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
I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from… — Lord Kelvin 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
Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership,… — Charles Lindbergh 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
I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night. — Charles Lindbergh 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
Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity. — Michael O'Leary 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
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
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
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
Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air. — Richard Owen Cambridge 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
“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
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
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
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
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
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it… — Seneca the Younger 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
Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass! — Ron McKeown 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
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 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
