There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end. — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating. — Felix Baumgartner Copy Share Image
Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there. — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
“Bumping airplane passengers off flights for silly reasons is how some airlines boost their profits!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In response to how he checked the weather, "I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it and read… — Gordon Baxter Copy Share Image
An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France. — Christian Blanc Copy Share Image
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town… — L. Welch Pogue Copy Share Image
I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but… — John C. Meyer Copy Share Image
I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for… — Mark Rosenker Copy Share Image
Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy… — P. E. Cleator Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book,… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies,… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things.… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it. — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
I'd manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else. — Louis R. Chenevert Copy Share Image
I have flown ValuJet, ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system. — Federico Pena Copy Share Image
Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization. — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful. — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
