Fighting Quote by Charles Lindbergh

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence,…

— Charles Lindbergh

Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

— Wilfred Owen

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

— Wilfred Owen

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

— Ferdinand Foch

The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science.…

— Charles Lindbergh

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

— Bertrand Piccard

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.

— Anonymous

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

— John L. Phillips

“Hidden in my desire to become a naval aviator was something more complex: a personal engagement with the problem of violence that expressed itself…

— Parker J. Palmer

I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future…

— Fred Haise

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

— Jessie Redmon Fauset