We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft. — Willie Walsh Copy Share Image
“This is our foxhole, and in foxholes, sometimes faith is all you've got.” — James R. Hannibal Copy Share Image
Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air. — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying. — Louise Thaden Copy Share Image
But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses. — Walter Alexander Raleigh Copy Share Image
Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting. — Adolph Malan Copy Share Image
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. — Louis Bleriot Copy Share Image
If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age. — Elrey Borge Jeppesen Copy Share Image
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of… — Bob Hoover Copy Share Image
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out… — Peter Malam Brothers Copy Share Image
Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea; Of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory,… — Alfred Korzybski 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
I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds.… — William Langewiesche Copy Share Image
To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To… — Henri Mignet 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
This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around… — Stephen Coonts 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
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
And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels… — Pierre Clostermann Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are. — Felix Baumgartner Copy Share Image
“As an altitude researcher, I know the air turbulence is getting worse every year.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
