Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list.… — Charles H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy:… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings. — Alfred Kahn Copy Share Image
Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization. — Jerome F. Lederer 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
The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions. — Gunther Rall Copy Share Image
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet 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
Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan… — John Brisben Walker Copy Share Image
The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
Highly complementary airline alliances and mergers can bring important benefits to passengers by connecting networks, offering new services and generating efficiencies across… — Neelie Kroes Copy Share Image
Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire. — Charles Kingsford Smith Copy Share Image
But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free… — Georges Besancon Copy Share Image
"The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in," says he, with a grin, "'T the blackbird an' phoebe… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault." — Donald J. Carty Copy Share Image
Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
