If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The soaring pilot makes an aerial excursion, not an incursion. His passage leaves a whisper, not a shriek. — Richard Miller Copy Share Image
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring. — Fernando Alonso Copy Share Image
I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can… — William Langewiesche Copy Share Image
When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing. — Duncan Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings. — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace,… — Pappy Boyington Copy Share Image
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
You've got to treat people as equals, and make them feel like it's their company. I don't know if I've had any… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have… — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent. — James Ira Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out… — Carl Andrew Spaatz Copy Share Image
That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit… — Newton D. Baker Copy Share Image
I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant… — Chuichi Nagumo Copy Share Image
Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb. — Juan Trippe Copy Share Image
I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
“Some airline gate agents are habitually canceling customer airline tickets for silly reasons.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Abbas ibn Firnas Copy Share Image
The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland. — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for… — Frontinus Copy Share Image
I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight.… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as… — Philip Gibbs Copy Share Image
The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into… — Bob Blumer Copy Share Image
Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come… — Howard Hughes Copy Share Image
Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough… — Deborah Hersman Copy Share Image
We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night She'd tell me to make a wish I'd wish we both could fly. — James McMurtry Copy Share Image
I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I… — Arthur P. Warner Copy Share Image
The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation. — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
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