In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and… — Neil H. McElroy Copy Share Image
There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost… — Adam Thomson Copy Share Image
Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night. — Mickey Rupp Copy Share Image
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only… — Alexander P. de Seversky Copy Share Image
The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker… — Katherine Stinson Copy Share Image
In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a… — Katherine Stinson Copy Share Image
I say, technically, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear… — Carl Andrew Spaatz Copy Share Image
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Airshow flying is tough, it's even tougher if you do something stupid. Don't do nuthin dumb! — Ralph Royce Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence… — Sam Hughes Copy Share Image
An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999. — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation,… — Roscoe Turner Copy Share Image
This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of… — Bob Hoover Copy Share Image
I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out… — Peter Malam Brothers Copy Share Image
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . .… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval… — John Milton Copy Share Image
America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected… — Rod Eddington Copy Share Image
In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
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