Quotes About Flying Aviation

#1. The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Jonathan Swift

#2. Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.

Stephen Coonts

#3. Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

Ernest K. Gann

#4. When asked by someone how much money flying takes:
Why, all of it!

Gordon Baxter

#5. A good submissive does not surrender too easily. There would be no fun in that

Veronica J. Dantes

#6. 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

#7. And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

Richard Bach

#8. Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.

Bill Harry

#9. Words are like coin - it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.

Steven Erikson

#10. Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it ... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

Michael Mosley

#11. Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.

Plautus

#12. In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

Mary Garden

#13. Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.

Gordon Baxter

#14. I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

John Glenn

#15. So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

Craig Johnston

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.

Bob Hoover

#19. For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

Jim Lovell

#20. My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.

Jane Yolen

#21. Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.

Helen Wells

#22. It wasn't like the news delighted her, nothing like. But I saw her get a tiny tickle in the schadenfreude as she registered that this happened on Dad's watch.

Joshilyn Jackson

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

Octave Chanute

#26. 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

#27. ...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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

James Dickey