Aviation Quotes
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.
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.
Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.
With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.
Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.
Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.
I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.
When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.
