William Langewiesche Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

So much of who we are is where we have been.