“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
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That’s… — Chuck Yeager 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
You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude. — John Travolta 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
“In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my… — John Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous… — Jerome Lalande 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
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
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
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
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
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
With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over… — Glenn Curtiss Copy Share Image
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know… — Amelia Earhart 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
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet 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
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
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
If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take… — Robert Crandall 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
Whilst shooting think of nothing else; brace the whole of the body; have both hands on the stick; concentrate on your ring… — Adolph Malan Copy Share Image
No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up… — Frederick C. Blesse Copy Share Image
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully… — Socrates Copy Share Image
