Aviation Quotes · Page 3

Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.

— Michael Parfit

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

It's a great day for TWA.

— William Compton

Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

— Michael O'Leary

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be…

— Kim Novak

I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it…

— Erich Hartmann

It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is…

— Jose Yacopi

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include…

— Charles Rolls

Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.

— Hoyt Vandenberg

Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that…

— Werner J. A. Dahm

In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.

— Oswald Boelcke

I think the first what would happen in the immediate wake of a hard Brexit is a lack of confidence in UK…

— Keir Starmer

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

— Calvin Coolidge

When asked by someone how much money flying takes: Why, all of it!

— Gordon Baxter

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to…

— Winston Churchill

Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.

— Theodore von Karman

The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be…

— Octave Chanute

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost…

— Adam Thomson

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

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,…

— Bill Gates

That's the best way to cross the Atlantic.

— Arthur Whitten Brown

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I've obviously been an aviation, space enthusiast for a long time.

— Jared Isaacman

The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced…

— Richard van der Riet Woolley

If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

— Adolf Hitler