It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers. — C. R. Smith Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern. — Frank Lorenzo Copy Share Image
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring. — Fernando Alonso Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent. — James Ira Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings. — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out… — Carl Andrew Spaatz Copy Share Image
That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit… — Newton D. Baker Copy Share Image
I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant… — Chuichi Nagumo Copy Share Image
Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb. — Juan Trippe Copy Share Image
Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought… — Ernst Udet Copy Share Image
Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he… — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning… — Michael Mosley Copy Share Image
In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a… — Katherine Stinson Copy Share Image
I say, technically, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it… — Vannevar Bush 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
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and… — James Ira Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It… — John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara Copy Share Image
I owe a quenchless debt to him who bade me seize my fate And hang it on the faith that I to… — Gill Robb Wilson Copy Share Image
He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
I think the first what would happen in the immediate wake of a hard Brexit is a lack of confidence in UK… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
