I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“And this was the greatest gift that aviation could ever give me; not the sense of freedom but the sense of permanence,… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed,… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s)… — Tom Gross Copy Share Image
Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like… — Erich Warsitz Copy Share Image
You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer… — Mike Batt Copy Share Image
The aviation industry, including combat air force, has been traditionally developing here. It is the Russian Far East where the SU aircraft,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I've always been a dreamer...or let's just say I kept my options open. In my heart, I knew singing was gonna be… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are… — Alex James Copy Share Image
The fascination of flight can't be expressed with words. But it really lies beyond the capabilities of human endeavor. Once you've experienced… — Friedrich Oblessor Copy Share Image
When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think… — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness… — George Will Copy Share Image
Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself.… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as… — Robert H. Goddard Copy Share Image
It is not easy to be the best. You must have the courage to bear pain, disappointment, and heartbreak. You must learn… — Betty Skelton Erde Copy Share Image
I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal… — Mary Schiavo Copy Share Image
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have… — John C. Meyer Copy Share Image
The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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