Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
All was glorious - a cloudless sky above, a most delicious view around. . . . How great is our good fortune!… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Abbas ibn Firnas 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
. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought… — Ernst Udet Copy Share Image
Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning… — Michael Mosley Copy Share Image
I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights. — Joseph Force Crater Copy Share Image
If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a… — Louise Thaden Copy Share Image
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work. — Pierre-Georges Latecoere Copy Share Image
Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit… — Newton D. Baker Copy Share Image
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
Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can… — William Langewiesche Copy Share Image
I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I… — Dick Rutan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock. — Werner Molders Copy Share Image
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity — Forest Ray Moulton Copy Share Image
I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In response to how he checked the weather, "I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it and read… — Gordon Baxter Copy Share Image
