I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be… — Kim Novak Copy Share Image
A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a… — H. G. Wells 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
For the Staffel: attack on principle in groups of four or six. When the fight breaks up into a series of single… — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story… — William Langewiesche 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
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
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
As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city.… — Cecil Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten… — Saburo Sakai Copy Share Image
It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns… — Curtis LeMay 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
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
Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers. — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting. — Michael Parfit Copy Share Image
Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best. — Adolph Malan Copy Share Image
Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor. — Lorenzo Lamas Copy Share Image
Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Buttons ... check. Dials ... check. Switches ... check. Little colored lights ... check. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses. — Walter Alexander Raleigh Copy Share Image
But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. — Louis Bleriot Copy Share Image
INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting. — Adolph Malan Copy Share Image
I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting.… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline. — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market. — Erik Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety. — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image