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
Airshow flying is tough, it's even tougher if you do something stupid. Don't do nuthin dumb! — Ralph Royce 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
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
There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a… — Ernest K. Gann 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
There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. — Wendell Willkie 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
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
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
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
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
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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
Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car.… — William T. Piper 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
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
