Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform. — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares,… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky,… — Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra Copy Share Image
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall. — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include… — Charles Rolls Copy Share Image
The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place… — Elliott White Springs Copy Share Image
Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all… — Gavin Lyall 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
Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
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
We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Things which do you no good in aviation: The sky above you. The runway behind you. The fuel still in the truck.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is,… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most… — Jerome F. Lederer 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
Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas… — Plautus 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
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
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
It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
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