I've been a space and aviation enthusiast since as long as I can remember. — Jared Isaacman Copy Share Image
I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls. — Jacqueline Cochran Copy Share Image
Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person? — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals. — Bill Harry Copy Share Image
Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime. — Pancho Barnes Copy Share Image
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“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
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then? — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground. — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before. — Elrey Borge Jeppesen Copy Share Image