Aeroplane Quotes
59 quotes by 43 authors
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The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights…
— John Dos Passos
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Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view out…
— Mark Hanna
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There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.
— Harriet Quimby
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I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by…
— Unknown Author
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It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year…
— H.G. Wells
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Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The example of the…
— Simon Newcomb
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The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation,…
— Unknown Author
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The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.
— Unknown Author
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In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly…
— Philip Gibbs
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The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it…
— Unknown Author
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In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him…
— Alexander Waugh
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And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us…
— Jeff Mangum
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I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.
— Winston Churchill
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The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical…
— Charles Lindbergh
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked…
— Haile Gebrselassie
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Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.
— Linda Gray
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I think aerobatic pilots make the best pilots because you know, you're just so confident in an aeroplane. If you're gonna get into trouble, I'd…
— Janine Shepherd
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I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.
— Al Gore
Who Wrote These Aeroplane Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 59 Aeroplane Quotes, led by these top contributors: