I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I… — William A. Patterson Copy Share Image
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come… — Howard Hughes Copy Share Image
If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Gliders, sailplanes, they are wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'd manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else. — Louis R. Chenevert Copy Share Image
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack… — John Trevor Godfrey Copy Share Image
The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in… — Robert Crippen Copy Share Image
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass! — Ron McKeown Copy Share Image
"Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all… — Gavin Lyall Copy Share Image
The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
