Aviation Quote by Igor Sikorsky

This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well, there wasn't…

— Gus Grissom

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

— Temple Grandin

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

— Elon Musk

I was stationed at the flight test center at Wright-Patterson, and I was flying a wide range of airplanes and giving them a lot…

— Gus Grissom

The technical genius which could find answers ... was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities…

— Henry H. Arnold

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew…

— Graham Hawkes

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

— Adolf Galland

As astronauts know better than anyone else, risks, incidents, and mishaps are inevitable in the development of any high-performance vehicle. The emergence of supersonic…

— Leroy Chiao

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris,…

— Burt Rutan

And So, I Was Not A Military Test Pilot, But As Soon As NASA Expressed An Interest In Flying Scientists & People Who Were…

— Story Musgrave

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

“Greatest engineering achievements of 20th century ranked by National Academy of Engineering: 1. Electrification 2. Automobile 3. Airplane 4. Water supply and distribution 5.…

— Henry Petroski