Airplane Quote by Kenneth Oppel

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes.…

— Buzz Aldrin

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

— James Gleick

“There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with…

— Jasper Fforde

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

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed…

— H. G. Wells

The reason I loved working at Boeing was because I loved the idea of air travel as a way of bringing people and cultures…

— Alan Mulally

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind…

— Richard Branson

I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a…

— William A. Patterson

When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes…

— John Travolta

Flights' grew out of a time when I was travelling a lot.

— Olga Tokarczuk

In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a passing train…

— Katherine Stinson