Aviation Quotes · Page 6

An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one.

— Len Morgan

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

— Charles Lindbergh

Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.

— Thomas W. Horton

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

— Richard Francis Burton

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

— W. H. Auden

People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.

— David Neeleman

As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.

— Dave Barry

Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots.

— David Neeleman

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but…

— Amy Johnson

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

— Avi Arad

Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.

— Michael Parfit

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

— Adolph Malan

Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.

— Lorenzo Lamas

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

— Joseph Addison

Buttons ... check. Dials ... check. Switches ... check. Little colored lights ... check.

— Bill Watterson

It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker…

— Katherine Stinson

Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation,…

— Roscoe Turner

In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear…

— Carl Andrew Spaatz

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's…

— Douglas Adams

This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been…

— Ferdinand Foch

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this…

— Gordon Cooper

You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest…

— Erich Hartmann

To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment…

— Octave Chanute

To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and…

— Pauline Gower

I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going…

— Pierre Clostermann

Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then…

— Erich Hartmann

During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge…

— Ernest K. Gann

The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or…

— Warren Buffett

It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will…

— Charles Lindbergh

So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

— Robert Benchley

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

— Amelia Earhart

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.

— Theodore von Karman

Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.

— Collett E. Woolman

Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you.

— Oswald Boelcke

When I'm up in the air, it's like I'm closer to heaven; I can't explain the feeling.

— Officer Jeffrey Gagliano

If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.

— Oswald Boelcke