I came to admire this machine which could lift virtually any load strapped to its back and carry it anywhere in any… — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
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I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
The other day the plane that Barack Obama was on had some mechanical difficulties and was forced to land. Well, the National… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not… — Walter Guido Vincenti Copy Share Image
I used to jump out of airplanes. I was a member of the 101st Airborne Division. When parachuting, you never look down… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved.… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven… — Percy Knauth Copy Share Image
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My Norwegian wife Aase was a Pan Am stewardess back in the Seventies when we met. She was very attractive, and we… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Suppose you were crossing the ocean in a supersonic jet-liner and you wandered into the cockpit. You certainly would not know how… — Murphy Joseph Copy Share Image
The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
“You’d think someone as resourceful as Rachel would know whether or not Toraf was the identical twin of a known terrorist. But… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love helicopters. In fact, my wife and my friends, the myth of the chopper in the sky is that Len's going… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
Airports! The neon floodlit, recycled air filled, melodramatic hell of them. The purposeful mass migration of anxiety-ridden humans as they frantically navigate… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
“LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven't long to live. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That's probably true. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won't even make… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
If a kid is really interested in wanting to have a career in aviation, he's actually learning and getting some of the… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for… — Mark Rosenker Copy Share Image
“If you ever hear the words conventional and wisdom conjoined, reject them. Because if it is conventional, it isn’t wisdom. And if… — Sean Iddings Copy Share Image
“Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to… — Stelios Haji-Ioannou Copy Share Image
I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be with you… — Michael Hayden 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
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be… — Ross Macpherson Smith Copy Share Image
I feel we are going to enter an era comparable in its progress to that in which the airplane advanced... Its just… — Dr Robert H Goddard Copy Share Image
I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn't. Without my husband's help and encouragement, I could not have… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I met Bushwick Bill at the Houston Airport. He was by himself and with a whole,… — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
“The plane touches down on very rough ground: its wheelbarrow wheels bounce and one set of wings rises alarmingly while the other… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Pictures are the plane in which we can do a trip in time ,in this trip we can see our good or… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is… — Bernard Ziegler Copy Share Image
People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
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