Aviation Quotes

307 quotes by 184 authors

No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once. — Otto Lilienthal
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal
The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its… — Unknown Author
The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person… — Richard Bach
Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very… — Charles Lindbergh
Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have… — William T. Piper
The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have traffic jams, parking… — Paul MacCready
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages,… — Bill Gates
I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does. — Robert Six
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Dad, I left my heart up there. — Francis Gary Powers
I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off… — Jacqueline Cochran
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake." — Chuck Yeager
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. .… — Isak Dinesen
There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast! — Roscoe Turner
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I… — Hanna Reitsch
Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling… — Harriet Quimby
I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and… — Richard Bach

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