Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one. — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there… — Henry H. Arnold Copy Share Image
Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find… — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. — Albert Scott Crossfield Copy Share Image
The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have… — John C. Meyer Copy Share Image
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one… — Gabriele d'Annunzio Copy Share Image
I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at… — Dean Smith 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
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
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan… — John Brisben Walker Copy Share Image
There's a lot of sensitivity about federal involvement in elections around the country. I think that it would be appropriate to consider… — Jeh Johnson Copy Share Image
Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages.… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world. — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots. — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.' — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil. — Don Burr Copy Share Image
Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
