On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number… — Cornelia Fort Copy Share Image
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible… — George W. Melville Copy Share Image
At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to… — Jules Vedrines Copy Share Image
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it… — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
I read, studied, and learned everything I could find about aviation. It was my greatest desire to become a pilot. I could… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department… — Neelie Kroes Copy Share Image
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
“In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my… — John Eisenhower Copy Share Image
That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city.… — Cecil Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous… — Jerome Lalande Copy Share Image
It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten… — Saburo Sakai Copy Share Image
As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace,… — Pappy Boyington Copy Share Image
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
You've got to treat people as equals, and make them feel like it's their company. I don't know if I've had any… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have… — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop.… — Gunther Rall Copy Share Image
How does 2002 bombing accident in Afghanistan happen? In this awful case it took so many lives, and I want to assure… — Ray Henault Copy Share Image
I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The airline business is crazy. I've not been enamored with the industry in general. You can't depend on anybody and anything. It's… — Robert Brooks Copy Share Image