Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation. You just start off with a large fortune. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere. — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee. — William K. Kershner Copy Share Image
In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any… — Jacqueline Auriol Copy Share Image
The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
“In aviation, 'good enough' is basically a four-letter word. In business, it's a slow, insidious killer” — Greg Born Copy Share Image
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as… — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it… — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a… — Louise Thaden Copy Share Image
It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of… — Glenn Curtiss Copy Share Image
We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Things which do you no good in aviation: The sky above you. The runway behind you. The fuel still in the truck.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas… — Plautus Copy Share Image
I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is… — Bernard Ziegler Copy Share Image
Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel.… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
If a kid is really interested in wanting to have a career in aviation, he's actually learning and getting some of the… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
“It was ... disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100… — Hanna Reitsch Copy Share Image
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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