The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.' — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing… — Allan Haines Loughead Copy Share Image
The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods;… — Philip Wills Copy Share Image
Gliders, sailplanes, they are wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
I am purely evil; Hear the thrum of my evil engine; Evilly I come. The stars are thick as flowers In the… — Ethel Mannin Copy Share Image
Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust… — Henry H. Arnold Copy Share Image
Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that… — Ruth Bancroft Law Copy Share Image
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble,… — James Irwin Copy Share Image
It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
. . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a… — James McCudden 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
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon .… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Most helmsmen would’ve been satisfied with a pilot’s wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and… — John Gillespie MaGee Jr Copy Share Image
Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test.… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed. — Harry Frank Guggenheim Copy Share Image
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