The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions. — Gunther Rall Copy Share Image
This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed. — Harry Frank Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future. — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass! — Ron McKeown Copy Share Image
Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the… — Harold Payson Copy Share Image
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace,… — Pappy Boyington Copy Share Image
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above… — John Milton Copy Share Image
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke… — Roger Bacon 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
I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a… — Jules Verne 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
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
Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven… — Percy Knauth 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
“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
The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
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