Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.'… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
My respect for TSA agents went up a notch. We look at 'em like, 'You can't bother me, I'm gettin' on my… — Lil Rel Howery Copy Share Image
Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed.… — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
“Unable to reach back to her book bag, she was reduced to reading the advertising cards above the heads of other passengers.… — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Flying means boredom. Next time you're going away, just drive. You can leave when you want. You don't have to sit next… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“at eight A.M. We landed in Los Angeles five hours later, but our connecting flight was delayed for four hours. Well, L.A.… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many times I've booked an air ticket only to get to the airport and find out they… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
I got into college, and a gentleman gave me a ride in a plane, and he flipped it upside down so we're… — Jimmy Graham Copy Share Image
One of the constraints on the U.S. business is the pilot shortage. There's not an abundance of pilots. There may be an… — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning… — Michael Mosley Copy Share Image
“Between 1931 and 1946, Pan American Airways had 28 flying boats known as “Clippers,” These four radial engine aircraft were S-40’s and… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
“Then there is the machine that belonged to Louis Blériot himself. I found an old newspaper article by the Dutch correspondent Alexander… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
American Airlines on Wednesday canceled 2400 flights this week stranding 150,000 travelers as it inspected the wiring on some of its jets.… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
“To minimize the sense of confinement, one of our video channels provided a breathtaking view of our journey, as seen from a… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
The principal reason for the universe's poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The Wright brothers committed themselves to do what no one else had ever done before. They took time to do their homework.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“A stock Gulfstream G650, a top-of-the-line business jet, cruises at altitudes up to 50,000 feet. If a G650 were retrofitted with a… — David Keith Copy Share Image
We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, "Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
“The trick to flying safely, Zoe always said, was to never buy a discount ticket and to tell yourself you had nothing… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
How many people, how many of us want to get on an airplane where you know only, only 20% of the pilots… — William Davis Copy Share Image
“In this land of great opportunity and few roads (in most regions the Alaskan Highway is the only real road), the immense… — George Meegan Copy Share Image
Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often,… — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was… — Pauline Gower Copy Share Image
I'm the guy who'll drive 250 miles tonight and be at the gym tomorrow at 10 A.M., when people are still sleeping… — John Cena Copy Share Image
The first time I flew after September 11, I honestly was a little paranoid. As I was going to the metal detector,… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
“What was an infant's view of air travel? You go to a special place, walk into a large room with seats in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm always in a hotel room, and I spend a good portion of my day setting it up so it's comfortable for… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the… — Emile Berliner Copy Share Image
“Where do nations begin? In airport lounges, of course. You see them arriving, soul by soul, in pre-activation mode. They step into… — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
. . . It wasn't until the jet engine came into being and that engine was coupled with special airplane designs -… — Joe Sutter Copy Share Image
![“I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all…” quote by Arnold Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad5/arnold-palmer-2127_airplane_i-started-flying-by-being-scared-when-i_2842581.jpg)
