Can you believe that the Wright brothers went into the air without the go ahead from the FAA or any kind of collective decision making? They decided to fly just because they could. — Balaji Srinivasan
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland
The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me. — Ratan Tata
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. — Charles Kettering
Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission. — Loren Cunningham
The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life. — Sally Ride
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone. — Igor Sikorsky
You have to take the leap before you can fly. — Nirmal Purja
It felt like the most natural thing in the world to do [to fly a plane at age 6]. — Edward Higgins White
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down. — Chuck Yeager
We’ve learned a great deal. And that’s why you fly a test flight, so you can learn. — John Young
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world. — Richard Branson
Short First Flight Quotes
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. — Eddie Rickenbacker
Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds. — Paulo Coelho
Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. — Louis Bleriot
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on. — Elie Wiesel
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers. — Plautus
Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle. — Igor Sikorsky
The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock. — Werner Molders
First Flight Image Quotes
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
My First Flight Quotes
I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future career! — Fred Haise
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure. — Beryl Markham
For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air. Later when asked what it felt like, I said, "It felt as though angels were pushing". — Adolf Galland
You have to be odd to be number one.
It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?' — Ernest K. Gann
Oh! that my soul had winged its flight,
When first I saw the morning light,
To worlds of liberty! — George Moses Horton
A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life. — Amy Hempel
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes.
By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie. — Mickey Rourke
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun. — Jacqueline Winspear
My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work. — Kenneth Joseph Arrow
I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids. — Paula Poundstone
To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more? — Yuri Gagarin
No, you sort of have to put that out of your mind. There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This can happen on any flight. It can happen on the last one as well as the first one. You just plan as best you can to take care of all these eventualities, and you get a well-trained crew, and you go fly. — Gus Grissom
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth. — Orlando Bloom
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders. — Sarah Orne Jewett
First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors. . . . What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world. — Claude Grahame-White
Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve. — Charles Lindbergh
Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away? — Edmund Clarence Stedman
The first guy who got Aids was a French flight attendant. How you like that Frenchie! You know when I come back and run for office, that may be the one that comes back and haunts me. — Bill Burr
If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried. — Alan Shepard
The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants. — C. Walton Lillehei
As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings. — William James
The British Airways steward announced that the in-flight movie would be Chariots of Fire. 'Is that the only one?' I asked. 'We are also showing Gandhi,' he replied. 'Where do I have to sit to see it?" I responded. 'I'm sorry, sir, but Gandhi is only showing in first class.' The irony seemed to escape him. — Jim Wallis
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. — Leonardo da Vinci
The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done. — Edward R. Murrow
My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me at the first opportunity, and one afternoon he climbed into the cockpit and we flew over the Redwood Falls together. From that day on I never heard a word against my flying and he never missed a chance to ride in the plane. — Charles Lindbergh
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. — Georges Bernanos
When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking. — Juan Manuel Fangio
People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane. — Mark Zuckerberg
The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting. — Pete Conrad
The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten. — Jim Ramstad
And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight. — Umberto Guidoni
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight. — Robert Crippen
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. — Jean Cocteau
The first time I was on TV, on "Flight of the Conchords," someone put up a YouTube clip and said, 'You're too ugly to be on TV.' And I was like, 'That is exactly why it's a good thing that I'm on TV.' — Kristen Schaal
We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio? — Joseph B. Wirthlin
A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen — Gayle Forman
Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights. — Henry Miller
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel. — Stephen Hawking
But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure? Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive. — John Milton
One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter. — Duane G. Carey
We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights. — Mark Kelly
The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights. — Mark Kelly
As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station. — Linda M. Godwin
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first. — Neil Diamond
And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights. — Adolf Galland
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