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Aviation Quotes by Stephen Coonts
- I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play upon…
- It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!
- Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are…
- Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.
- Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.
- Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.
- Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the…
More Aviation Quotes
- Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. — Neil Armstrong
- Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long… — Douglas Adams
- More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose… — Cecil Beaton
- In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. — Robert Benchley
- If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. — Mel Brooks
- When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land,… — Kalpana Chawla
- I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always… — Michael P. Anderson
- To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. — Otto Lilienthal
- My first wife didn't like to fly, either. — Gordon Baxter
- The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times… — Benny Hill
- The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking. — Jonathan Swift
- Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be. — Will Durant