
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

Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way. —
William Langewiesche

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

Intelligence is not a prerequisite for safe flying, but an acceptance of human fallibility is, and the two are generally linked. —
William Langewiesche

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. —
William Langewiesche

Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours —
William Langewiesche

So much of who we are is where we have been. —
William Langewiesche