Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee. — William K. Kershner Copy Share Image
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
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly. — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground. — Richard Bach 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
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
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
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
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
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
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky,… — Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra Copy Share Image
It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of… — Glenn Curtiss Copy Share Image
A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He… — Mark Twain 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
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste;… — Charles Lindbergh 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
I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected… — Ernest K. Gann 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
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
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
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
