Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes. — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service. — James M. Landis Copy Share Image
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out… — Jerrie Cobb Copy Share Image
The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them. — Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell Copy Share Image
Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as… — Robert H. Goddard Copy Share Image
It is not easy to be the best. You must have the courage to bear pain, disappointment, and heartbreak. You must learn… — Betty Skelton Erde Copy Share Image
I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal… — Mary Schiavo Copy Share Image
The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself.… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going… — Jacqueline Cochran Copy Share Image
What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension… — Louis Pierre Mouillard Copy Share Image
It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and… — James Ira Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better. — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me. — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses. — Oswald Boelcke Copy Share Image
