“As an altitude researcher, I know the air turbulence is getting worse every year.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are. — Felix Baumgartner 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
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that… — Ernest K. Gann 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
It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is… — Jose Yacopi Copy Share Image
“I have read stories of budget airlines stranding families and them having to pay $9,000 to get home!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the… — Christian Morgenstern 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
Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air. — Richard Owen Cambridge Copy Share Image
We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done. — Joe Sutter Copy Share Image
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like… — Erich Warsitz Copy Share Image
You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer… — Mike Batt Copy Share Image
Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
I think the first what would happen in the immediate wake of a hard Brexit is a lack of confidence in UK… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment… — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going… — Pierre Clostermann Copy Share Image
To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and… — Pauline Gower Copy Share Image
The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home. — Jerry Crawford Copy Share Image
The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
“Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice.” — Derek Robinson Copy Share Image
