I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can… — William Langewiesche Copy Share Image
An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one. — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. — Louis Bleriot Copy Share Image
Buttons ... check. Dials ... check. Switches ... check. Little colored lights ... check. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the… — Richard Bach 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
They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed… — George MacDonald 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
Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker… — Katherine Stinson Copy Share Image
To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and… — Pauline Gower 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
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
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
There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire. — Charles Kingsford Smith 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
There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find… — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Airshow flying is tough, it's even tougher if you do something stupid. Don't do nuthin dumb! — Ralph Royce Copy Share Image
Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not… — Ernest K. Gann 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
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
Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
