Aviation Quotes · Page 21

I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

— Charles Lindbergh

It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.

— Brian R. Norris

This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

— Juan Trippe

The spacious firmament on high, And all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.

— Joseph Addison

Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.

— Robert L. Priddy

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

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

— Simon Newcomb

I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.

— Joaquin Miller

It got more exciting with each war. I mean the planes were going faster than hell when I was flying a Mustang,…

— Robin Olds

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the…

— Janet Napolitano

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble,…

— Richard Bach

Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the…

— Anonymous

The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for…

— Mark Rosenker

Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy…

— P. E. Cleator

I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to…

— Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book,…

— Leigh Newman

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

— Amelia Earhart

If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken…

— Baron King of Wartnaby John King

The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation.

— Richard Quest

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

“There's only one job in this world that gives you an office in the sky; and that is pilot.”

— Mohith Agadi

It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.

— Louis Bleriot

Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.

— Richard Branson

Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.

— Stephen Sondheim

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

— Alfred Kahn

This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back.…

— Charles Lindbergh

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

— Gordon Bethune

I'm in control of things happening in my aviation career. And I'm not in my acting career.

— Lorenzo Lamas

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

— Jimmy Doolittle

The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."

— Donald J. Carty

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

— George Carlin

No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.

— Hermann Goring

Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

— Adolf Galland

I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go…

— Gordon Cooper

To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting…

— Adolf Galland

Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.

— Thomas Pynchon

In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't…

— Gordon Bethune

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I…

— Dick Rutan

From the air, the distinctions between residential, commercial, and industrial areas are easily understand while town, county, and state boundaries go unseen.

— Oliver Gillham

I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes.…

— Harry Broadhurst