Airline Quote by Juan Trippe

In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

— Juan Trippe

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

— Wendell Willkie

It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious it is.…

— Dixie Lee Ray

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood:…

— Christian Morgenstern

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft…

— Charles Lindbergh

I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many…

— Buzz Aldrin

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

It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine…

— George Will

The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant…

— Wendell Willkie

Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors.…

— Diane Ackerman

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

— C. Walton Lillehei