whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
The best defence of the country is the fear of the fighter. If we are strong in fighters we should probably never… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane.… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension… — Louis Pierre Mouillard Copy Share Image
Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area. — Adolph Malan Copy Share Image
I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before. — Elrey Borge Jeppesen Copy Share Image
At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest. — Alfred Kahn Copy Share Image
The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department… — Neelie Kroes Copy Share Image
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car.… — William T. Piper Copy Share Image
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no… — William Anders Copy Share Image
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
