There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“A typical Virgin airline employee is the sort of person who will joke with passengers and smile, not just nod their head… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Hadley grabs the laminated safety instructions from the seat pocket in front of her and frowns at the cartoon men and women… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“We climbed up the stairs to the jet. As I entered, the first thing that came to my mind was, 'Holy shit,… — Elle Casey Copy Share Image
I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean when you think about it jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Beside me Esguerra is silent, his hands gripping the edge of his seat as the ground rushes toward us, the small objects… — Anna Zaires Copy Share Image
“The nineteen-seater Twin Otters offer three significant advantages: one, they can take off and land on the short runways common in mountainous… — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
There are those airports which make you feel better, and there are those airports that, when you go there, your heart sinks:… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
I absolutely love jumping on a plane. I find it to be one of the most wonderful, releasing experiences in the world.… — John Torode Copy Share Image
In most every other country, 'body flying' more commonly known as BASE jumping is legal and looked upon as a beautiful art.… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Airlines need staff to fly and maintain their aircraft. They need to pay applicable taxes and gate fees. They need to buy… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“I’m surprised there isn’t a jet airplane designed in the shape of a brick. Some people (aeronautical engineers) might say that’s because… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if… — Cory Lidle Copy Share Image
I got my first pilot license, an airplane private pilot license, in 1997 for the purpose of going to pick up my… — Lorenzo Lamas Copy Share Image
“Forty years ago, Richard Branson, who ultimately founded Virgin Air, found himself in a similar situation in an airport in the Caribbean.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around… — Yves Rossy Copy Share Image
“For some reason, these days we tend to downplay the importance of aggression, of taking risks, of barreling forward. It’s probably because… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the… — David M. Brown Copy Share Image
To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment… — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're… — Tony Fernandes Copy Share Image
My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
I'm so much more at ease now than when I was flying as Bob. Then, I was OCD about everything, always checking… — Zoey Tur Copy Share Image
For some reason, BASE jumping is misunderstood and our government forbids it and makes it illegal in most every place in the… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane... received… — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
Today, the U.S. fleet has shrunk to just four main carriers, which control 80 percent-plus of the U.S. market. No wonder passengers… — Paul Solman Copy Share Image
I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying,… — Luca Parmitano Copy Share Image
During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no - and you can't find any… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and… — John Mica Copy Share Image
