Air Quote by Otto Lilienthal

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then,…

— Michael Ignatieff

Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.

— Diane Ackerman

Every flight begins with a fall.

— Anonymous

The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere…

— Ross Macpherson Smith

The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn…

— Philip Wills

One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we…

— Otto Lilienthal

I am fascinated by air. If you remove the air from the sky, all the birds would fall to the ground. And all the…

— Anonymous

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

— Amar Bose

Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation, it is…

— Roscoe Turner

“Commercial airlines rely upon pressure to keep their passengers properly oxygenated. In preflight safety”

— Kevin Fong

Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours

— William Langewiesche

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

— John Perry Barlow