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Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.
— Amelia Earhart
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
If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
— Oswald Boelcke
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
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
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
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
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 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
South Wales is a hub of aviation.
— Bruce Dickinson
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
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
Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.
— Stephen Coonts
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
Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.
— Stephen Coonts
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
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
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 £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
Dad, I left my heart up there.
— Francis Gary Powers
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