“Calling 911 for a police officer when an airline is engaging in extortion with you is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
"If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon," cried Rozier. "Some fire,… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up… — Richard Bach 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
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other. — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things.… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for… — Mark Rosenker Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber Copy Share Image
“Aggressive airplane passengers probably have a bad case of Altitude Sickness. Many people are hypoxic at airplane cruising altitude. They would be… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough… — Deborah Hersman Copy Share Image
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
