When I'm up in the air, it's like I'm closer to heaven; I can't explain the feeling. — Officer Jeffrey Gagliano Copy Share Image
Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do. — Theodore von Karman Copy Share Image
Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver. — Collett E. Woolman Copy Share Image
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft. — Willie Walsh Copy Share Image
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the… — Harold Payson Copy Share Image
Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass! — Ron McKeown Copy Share Image
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future. — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no… — William Anders Copy Share Image
Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s)… — Tom Gross Copy Share Image
Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed,… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
“And this was the greatest gift that aviation could ever give me; not the sense of freedom but the sense of permanence,… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension… — Louis Pierre Mouillard Copy Share Image
Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like… — H. G. Wells 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
My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and… — James Ira Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
“This is our foxhole, and in foxholes, sometimes faith is all you've got.” — James R. Hannibal Copy Share Image
If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it. — Oswald Boelcke 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
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