Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. — Eddie Rickenbacker
Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle. — Igor Sikorsky
To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home. — Jerry Crawford
Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure. — Charles Lindbergh
Men and women owe it to themselves and their nations to become interested in aviation. It's a field where we all can be as big as we want. — Bessie Coleman
Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb. — Juan Trippe
And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight. — Elrey Borge Jeppesen
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland
Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission. — Loren Cunningham
I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying. — Kalpana Chawla
Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up. — Walter Cunningham
The air is the only place free from prejudices. — Bessie Coleman
Dream Aviation Quotes
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet. — Igor Sikorsky
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. — Louis Bleriot
The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But when I saw how easily the man flyers manipulated their machines I said I could fly. — Harriet Quimby
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. — Dionysius Lardner
Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams. — Stanley Kunitz
Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together. — Thomas Pynchon
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. — Joyce Carol Oates
In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be. — Madeleine L'Engle
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation. — Neil Armstrong
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky. — Alexander Pope
Safety Aviation Quotes
Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and the universe. — Lisa Nowak
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. — Charles Lindbergh
The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy the route as well. — Ilan Ramon
Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted. — Jerome F. Lederer
It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management. — Richard P. Feynman
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower. — Winston Churchill
In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline. — Ivy Lee
People often assume I assume I am a thrill seeker, but I am not. I do not enjoy roller coasters, and you won't find me bungee-jumping. ... It is a disadvantage that my pursuits are inherently dangerous. A large part of my effort is to reduce risk. — Steve Fossett
I have flown ValuJet. ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system. — Federico Pena
Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it. — Amelia Earhart
Navy Aviation Quotes
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. — Alan Shepard
War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy. — Omar N. Bradley
To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war. — Giulio Douhet
The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm. — Jimmy Doolittle
It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great Aviation Quotes
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. — Richard Bach
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to. — Harry Reasoner
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? — Mae West
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. — Pappy Boyington
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see . — Charles Lindbergh
You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. — Amelia Earhart
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly — Harry Reasoner
A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying. — Louise Thaden
Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings. — Wolfgang Langewiesche
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. — Henry Ford
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it? — Gordon Bethune
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life. — Igor Sikorsky
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? — George Carlin
I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart. — Niall Horan
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy. — Yuri Gagarin
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. — Charles Lindbergh
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing. — Chuck Yeager
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. — Chuck Yeager
Airplanes And Flying Quotes
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. — George W. Bush
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world. — L. Welch Pogue
There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss. — Ernest K. Gann
Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.' — Eileen Collins
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all. — Jacques Charles
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives. — Socrates
The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly. — Len Morgan
Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. — Charles Lindbergh
Aerospace Quotes
I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do. — Kalpana Chawla
The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors. — Christopher Bond
Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region. — Roger Wicker
Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones. — Evan Davis
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. — Paul Berg
The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety. — Jerome F. Lederer
In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where the Boeings and the Lockheed's and the Northrop's and so forth. And there's no way these small companies could do it. — Peter Diamandis
Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you. — Burt Rutan
It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen — Thurston Moore
The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute. — Nils Bohlin
Aeroplane Quotes
Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible. — Lord Kelvin
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. — Casey Stengel
Lets take flight simulation as an example. If youre trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You dont have to get in an airplane until late in the process. — Roy Romer
There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women. — Harriet Quimby
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently. — Emile Berliner
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. — Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does. — Reed Hastings
Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep? — Sayings
We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming. — Diane Sawyer
Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases. — Manfred von Richthofen
Airline Industry Quotes
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do. — Henry A. Kissinger
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. — Orson Welles
If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs. — Herb Kelleher
The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland. — Michael O'Leary
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business. — Adam Thomson
It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline. — Gordon Bethune
The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage. — George H. W. Bush
These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell. — C. R. Smith
Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour." — Dave Barry
Airline Quotes
Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines — John Mulaney
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. — Mark Russell
Western airlines cannot compete with Chinese because the latter can fly over Russia. Sanctioning large amounts of the world’s total landmass has economic costs. — Philip Pilkington
Humans are actually far more likely to get taken out by an impact event or a supervolcano than we are to get killed in a crash of a commercial airliner. — John Young
Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air. — Herb Kelleher
The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. — Peggy Ryan
We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally. — Wendell Berry
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one. — Niki Lauda
We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'. — Herb Kelleher
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. — Frank Zappa
Aircraft Quotes
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones. — Henri Coanda
Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. — Barack Obama
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. — J. B. Priestley
As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business. — Fred Haise
Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin. — Bruce Sterling
We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion. — Douglas Bader
Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be. — Adolf Galland
Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft — Nido R Qubein
Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings. — Norman Foster
Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. — Joseph Stalin
Jet Planes Quotes
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. — Jackie Kennedy
Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular. — Lawrence Summers
Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did. — Ben E. King
The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature. — Thubten Yeshe
One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something — Francis Ford Coppola
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures. — Barry Commoner
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement. — Elon Musk
I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again — John Denver
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches. — Robert Orben
A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do; just do what you can as only you can do it. — Dan Millman
Airline Pilots Quotes
Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it. — Michael O'Leary
If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat. — Robert Crandall
I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder with a coat hanger. — Steven Wright
What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds? — Gary Larson
I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal.
Except that it's not. — A.S. King
He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation. — Spalding Gray
I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost. — Willard Scott
The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association. — Robert Genn
I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. — Muriel Spark
There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip. — Bob Hope
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. — John Glenn
Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart. — Manfred von Richthofen
Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer. — Hermann Goring
If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good. — Curtis LeMay
The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish. — Manfred von Richthofen
I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British. — Hermann Goring
Infantry, Artillery, Aviation - all that we have - are yours to dispose of as you will. . . . I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history. — John J. Pershing
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature. — Albertus Magnus
If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform. — Harriet Quimby
I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear than the men have. At least, more women than men asked to go up with me. And when I took them up, they seemed to enjoy it. — Katherine Stinson
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe. — Mark Twain
The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself. — Billy Bishop
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power - not with ground forces. — Curtis LeMay
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor. — Avi Arad
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur. — Giulio Douhet
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . . — Amy Johnson
We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. That is our object, and we shall pursue it relentlessly. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious. — Edgar Mitchell
I thought it my duty to risk my life to learn aviation and to encourage flying among men and women who are so far behind the White race in this modern study. — Bessie Coleman
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Abbas ibn Firnas
In a calm sea every man is a pilot. — John Ray
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