This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed. — Harry Frank Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Flying does not rely so much on strength, as on physical and mental co-ordination. — Raymonde de Laroche Copy Share Image
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks? — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers. — Frank Lorenzo Copy Share Image
At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky. — Philip Freneau Copy Share Image
These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell. — C. R. Smith Copy Share Image
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour. — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I… — Edward Smith Copy Share Image
The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle… — Oliver Stewart Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be… — Ross Macpherson Smith Copy Share Image
It got more exciting with each war. I mean the planes were going faster than hell when I was flying a Mustang,… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the… — David Lasser Copy Share Image
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,… — Eugene Ionesco 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
The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
No, he probably wouldn't mention it - except to another flier. Then they will talk for hours. They will re-create all the… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
A free ride and free food are two of the three things no pilot ever turns down. — Dick Rutan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions. — Federico Pena Copy Share Image