Top 100 Quotes About Aviation
#1. Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.
Amelia Earhart
#2. There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
Alexander Graham Bell
#3. Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
Albert Scott Crossfield
#4. The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.
Wilson Greatbatch
#5. Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im.
Gordon Cooper
#6. 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
#7. We will provide aviation, construction, and logistics services first throughout Africa and then throughout the rest of the world.
Erik Prince
#8. 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.
Christian Morgenstern
#9. Syd's strafing run at Florennes had been a feat of strafing skill. His cine-gun footage of the radar van was perfect. It showed radar operators diving out both sides of the brown box on wheels. Instead of congratulations, the Station Commander awarded him a $25 fine and a formal reproof.
R.J. Childerhose
#10. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.
Tom Stoppard
#11. 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
#12. Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.
Chiang Kai-shek
#13. 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
#14. Aviators live by hours, not by days.
T.H. White
#15. All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
Simon Newcomb
#16. I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.
Richard Bach
#17. I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
Brian Jones
#18. 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
#20. Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed. It's pretty amazing. And when you see them being taken apart and you see the work that goes into keeping those things in the air, you think, "Wow!"
Dallas Campbell
#22. It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.
Louis Bleriot
#23. MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!
Ernest K. Gann
#24. Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
John Travolta
#25. Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.
Brian Sandoval
#27. Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.
Winston Churchill
#28. The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
Arthur C. Clarke
#29. Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
James Dickey
#30. Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.
Ferdinand Foch
#31. This is my situation. I'm the kind of person who, for fun, writes articles called 'Aviation Club Soars into Orbit!' and an unhappy bully I've never heard of is sending out envoys.
Mike Birbiglia
#32. In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.
Oswald Boelcke
#33. 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
#34. In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At the time of incident he would gladly return the entire amount for the privilege of being elsewhere.
Ernest K. Gann
#35. In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.
Tom Wolfe
#36. ...I stand looking at the aircraft, trying in vain to remember all the theoretical lore which i was supposed to have absorbed in school. The effort is discouraging.
Ernest K. Gann
#38. I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.
Susan Orlean
#39. Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.
Ernest K. Gann
#40. Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation, it is also civilian aviation and airpower is peace power.
Roscoe Turner
#41. Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.
Rick Perry
#42. The leeway had been increased by the war period in which, by agreement, America concentrated on heavy bombers and transport aircraft while British effort was devoted to fighters and other combat types.
Pen And Sword Aviation
#44. When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather your comparisons from the stuff particular to that world - be they king salmon and aviation fuel, or pot roasts and spatulas.
Leigh Newman
#45. Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.
Adolph Malan
#46. Black people don't hijack planes, alright? Now I'll be the first to admit, we steal a lot of stuff, but we do not hijack planes. In fact, in the history of aviation, a black person has never even attempted to hijack a plane. Do you want to know why? Because you can't sell an airplane.
Alonzo Bodden
#47. I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.
Elrey Borge Jeppesen
#48. In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
Burt Rutan
#49. All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.
Octave Chanute
#51. I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.
Yves Rossy
#52. Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.
Stephen Coonts
#53. We lived in and out of our flight bags, they being our true and only home. Thus, if we were not actually flying or sleeping, we were often lonely and at a loss to occupy ourselves.
Ernest K. Gann
#54. I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.
Elrey Borge Jeppesen
#55. The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations.
Anthony Albanese
#56. It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.
Ralph Royce
#57. If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?
Graham Hawkes
#58. This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
Steve Fossett
#59. You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.
Janet Napolitano
#60. If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
Oswald Boelcke
#61. We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes.
Deborah Hersman
#62. Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#63. Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.
Michael Parfit
#64. There's a joke in the aviation industry that the ideal aircrew in today's modern aircraft would be comprised of a man and a dog. The dog is there to bite the man if he so much as tries to touch the controls, and the pilot's one remaining job is to feed the dog!
Lim Khoy Hing
#65. All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.
Karen Chamberlain
#66. We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all.
Barack Obama
#67. People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.
David Neeleman
#68. The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who ... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space ... on the infinite highway of the air.
Wilbur Wright
#69. By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course of human progress. If he had not lived the entire history of progress in flying would have been other than it has been.
Wilbur Wright
#70. The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
Charles Lindbergh
#71. Thou canst commit lift and defy gravity, but not indefinitely, lest the earth rise up and smite thee.
A.V. Roe
#72. I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.
Joseph Force Crater
#73. Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.
Helen Wells
#74. I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.
Annie Jacobsen
#75. If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music ... and of aviation.
Tom Stoppard
#77. Gravity is a myth. In reality the earth sucks.
A.V. Roe
#78. 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
#79. For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft
Jim Lovell
#81. Susan, Susan -- Poetry: aviation! Prose: infantry. [to Susan Sontag]
Joseph Brodsky
#82. 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
#83. People who aren't afraid to live aren't afraid to die.
Carol Fiore
#84. They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing.
Angelina Jolie
#85. 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.
Jacqueline Auriol
#86. It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
Isak Dinesen
#87. If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
Bob Hoover
#88. At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.
Igor Sikorsky
#89. Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!
Adolph Malan
#90. I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
Howard Hughes
#91. This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.
Charles Lindbergh
#92. I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does.
Robert Six
#93. There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!
Roscoe Turner
#94. At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing in the South Station
And not in that part of the daily press which is reserved for victims of aviation.
Ogden Nash
#95. The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
Bruce Dickinson
#96. It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.
Jose Yacopi
#97. Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.
Oswald Boelcke
#98. Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#99. It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.
Glenn Curtiss
#100. Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end.
Chuck Aaron
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