Aviation Quotes · Page 8

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

— Alan Cranston

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

— Joseph Force Crater

The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

— C. Maxwell Stanley

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.

— Plautus

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

— James Dickey

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

— Jacqueline Cochran

I've been a space and aviation enthusiast since as long as I can remember.

— Jared Isaacman

Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?

— Donald Rumsfeld

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

— Otto Lilienthal

Miramar is known as the aviation hub; many businesses right here in the city are supplying the aviation industry.

— Wayne Messam

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

— Manfred von Richthofen

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the…

— Mark Twain

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

— Jim Lovell

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

— Adolf Galland

The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy…

— Ilan Ramon

Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with…

— Kingsley Amis

Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children…

— Neville Chamberlain

Infantry, Artillery, Aviation - all that we have - are yours to dispose of as you will. . . . I have…

— John J. Pershing

For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller.…

— Adolf Galland

If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list.…

— Charles H. MacDonald

If you are like many people, flying may be a large portion of your carbon footprint. Over all, the aviation industry accounts…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the…

— James M. Loy

I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani,…

— Chuck Yeager

Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the…

— Rudyard Kipling

We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import…

— James Howard Kunstler

Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are…

— Diane Ackerman

So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster…

— James Hillman

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid…

— Ferdinand Magellan

It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the…

— Waldemar Kaempffert

There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés…

— Amy Johnson

Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime.

— Pancho Barnes

Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then?

— Bill Watterson

The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.

— Hugo Eckener

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.

— Bill Harry

We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.

— Michael O'Leary

Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills.

— Pancho Barnes

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

— Winston Churchill

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick