Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in… — William T. Piper 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
Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then? — Bill Watterson 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
A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying. — Louise Thaden Copy Share Image
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. — C. Maxwell Stanley Copy Share Image
Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of… — Bob Hoover Copy Share Image
What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn… — Henri Mignet Copy Share Image
Buttons ... check. Dials ... check. Switches ... check. Little colored lights ... check. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one. — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate.… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
