In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it. — Stephen Coonts 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
We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers. — Frank Lorenzo Copy Share Image
It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999. — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds. — Erich Hartmann 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
A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time. — William Bushnell Stout Copy Share Image
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. — Albert Scott Crossfield Copy Share Image
The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount… — Pappy Boyington Copy Share Image
There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an… — Louise Thaden 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
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That’s… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and… — James Ira Thomas Jones 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
If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. — Bob Hoover Copy Share Image
