What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty? — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other. — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city. — John Thomason Copy Share Image
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no… — William Anders Copy Share Image
I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my… — John Eisenhower 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
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
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
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
As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same… — Dave Barry 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
A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on! — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight. — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs. — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area. — Adolph Malan Copy Share Image
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