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Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future. — Amelia Earhart

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. — Freeman Dyson

I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before. — Elrey Borge Jeppesen

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999. — Norm Dicks

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation. — Arthur C. Clarke

The birds can fly, An' why can't I? — John Townsend Trowbridge

My first wife didn't like to fly, either. — Gordon Baxter

Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. — Albert Scott Crossfield

The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. — Ernest K. Gann

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

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. — Chesley Sullenberger

Always turn and face the attack. — Adolph Malan

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation. — Arnold Palmer

Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do. — Theodore Von Karman

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft — Jim Lovell

If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it. — Oswald Boelcke

Thou canst commit lift and defy gravity, but not indefinitely, lest the earth rise up and smite thee. — A.V. Roe

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. — Elon Musk

Aviators live by hours, not by days. — T.H. White

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work. — Pierre-Georges Latecoere

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation. — Neil Armstrong

When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard. — Adolph Malan

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals. — Bill Harry

Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere. — Arthur Miller

Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps. — Ernest K. Gann

Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"! — Adolph Malan

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking. — Jonathan Swift

Always carry through an attack when you have started it. — Oswald Boelcke

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it. — John Glenn

The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market. — Erik Lindbergh

It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go. — Glenn Curtiss

Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses. — Oswald Boelcke

Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out. — Bill Lear

To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home. — Jerry Crawford

I'd manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else. — Louis R. Chenevert

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich. — Tony Fernandes

Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area. — Adolph Malan

I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty. — Amelia Earhart

That's what we're trained to do. — Chesley Sullenberger

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words. — Jessie Redmon Fauset

It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on! — Stephen Coonts

The only characteristic all airliners share is that upon proper urging they are normally capable of leaving the earth's surface. — Ernest K. Gann

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back. — Howard Hughes

The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy. — Manfred Von Richthofen

Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end. — Chuck Aaron

I have flown ValuJet, ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system. — Federico Pena

I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God. — Abraham Lincoln

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. — Eddie Rickenbacker

All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful. — Octave Chanute

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

They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing. — Angelina Jolie

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me. — Chuck Yeager

South Wales is a hub of aviation. — Bruce Dickinson

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God. — Gordon Baxter

We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all. — Barack Obama

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower. — Winston Churchill

You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs. — Martin Caidin

When asked by someone how much money flying takes:
Why, all of it! — Gordon Baxter

If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. — Bob Hoover

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century. — Bertrand Piccard

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. — Plautus

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life. — Stephen Coonts

Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.' — Adolph Malan

Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im. — Gordon Cooper

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small. — William Langewiesche

Height gives you the initiative. — Adolph Malan

People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world. — David Neeleman

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age. — Elrey Borge Jeppesen

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating. — Felix Baumgartner

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity. — Winston Churchill

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others. — Amy Johnson

Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere. — Paul MacCready

Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand. — Stephen Coonts

Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots. — David Neeleman

Nothing said I had to crash. — Bob Hoover

It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane. — Ralph Royce

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling. — Richard Branson

Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of a kick. — Jerry O'Connell

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best. — Adolph Malan

As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight. — Dave Barry

Susan, Susan -- Poetry: aviation! Prose: infantry. [to Susan Sontag] — Joseph Brodsky

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted. — Cecil Day-Lewis

This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth. — Juan Trippe

Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me. — Rick Perry

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be. — Will Durant

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. — Steve Prefontaine

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?" — William Langewiesche

Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you. — Stephen Coonts

It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control. — Louis Bleriot

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with Â£10m.' — Bruce Dickinson

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward. — Igor Sikorsky

It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle. — Brian Trubshaw

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road. — Chiang Kai-shek

We will provide aviation, construction, and logistics services first throughout Africa and then throughout the rest of the world. — Erik Prince

Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names. — Helen Wells

Dad, I left my heart up there. — Francis Gary Powers

I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does. — Robert Six

People who aren't afraid to live aren't afraid to die. — Carol Fiore

Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not. — Michael Parfit