Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.' — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil. — Don Burr Copy Share Image
Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety. — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
The soaring pilot makes an aerial excursion, not an incursion. His passage leaves a whisper, not a shriek. — Richard Miller Copy Share Image
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. — Richard Bach 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
When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing. — Duncan Campbell Scott 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
As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected… — Rod Eddington Copy Share Image
... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval… — John Milton Copy Share Image
In nearly all cases where machines have been downed, it was during a fight which had been very short, and the successful… — Billy Bishop Copy Share Image
I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic… — Juan Trippe Copy Share Image
Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed.… — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much… — George Cayley Copy Share Image
Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages.… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
There's a lot of sensitivity about federal involvement in elections around the country. I think that it would be appropriate to consider… — Jeh Johnson 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
Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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