Aviation famous quotes
03-24-2025
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Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
-- Albert Scott Crossfield -
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 -
In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
-- Amelia Earhart -
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
-- Arnold Palmer -
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
-- Avi Arad -
Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.
-- Avi Arad -
When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.
-- Avi Arad -
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 -
I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.
-- Bill Cosby -
Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
-- Bill Lear -
The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.
-- Bob Blumer -
If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
-- Bob Hoover -
It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.
-- Brian Trubshaw -
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
-- Bruce Dickinson -
The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.
-- C. Maxwell Stanley -
Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
-- Carl Sagan -
High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.
-- Cecil Day-Lewis -
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
-- Charles Kettering -
I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
-- Chesley Sullenberger -
My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.
-- Chesley Sullenberger -
Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end.
-- Chuck Aaron -
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.
-- Corrine Brown -
People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.
-- David Neeleman -
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker -
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
-- Epictetus -
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 -
I have flown ValuJet, ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system.
-- Federico Pena -
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
-- Felix Baumgartner -
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.
-- Ferdinand Foch -
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.
-- Gordon Baxter -
When asked by someone how much money flying takes: Why, all of it!
-- Gordon Baxter -
I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
-- Howard Hughes -
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 -
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
-- James Dickey -
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft
-- Jim Lovell -
I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.
-- John Glenn -
The birds can fly, An' why can't I?
-- John Townsend Trowbridge -
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 -
I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.
-- Joseph Force Crater -
I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.
-- Kim Novak -
It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.
-- Louis Bleriot -
You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.
-- Martin Caidin -
Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.
-- Michael Parfit -
The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.
-- Neelie Kroes -
He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
-- Neil Armstrong -
More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.
-- Norm Dicks -
All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.
-- Octave Chanute -
No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.
-- Otto Lilienthal -
Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime.
-- Pancho Barnes -
Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.
-- Paul MacCready -
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.
-- Pierre-Georges Latecoere -
Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.
-- Plautus -
It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.
-- Ralph Royce -
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
-- Simon Newcomb -
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 -
Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.
-- Stephen Coonts -
Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.
-- Stephen Coonts -
It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!
-- Stephen Coonts -
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
-- Steve Fossett -
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.
-- Tony Fernandes -
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 -
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.
-- Wilson Greatbatch -
I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.
-- Dick Rutan -
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 -
I think the first what would happen in the immediate wake of a hard Brexit is a lack of confidence in UK economy. Business is already telling me that they need a year or so to adjust to what is going to change in March 2019. Without a deal, tariffs would immediately kick in and we would need all the physical attributes of a customs border. And that is just the trade aspect. Imagine what would happen if, from one day to the next, we had no aviation agreement or no agreements for dealing with security across Europe.
-- Keir Starmer -
‎‎‎‎Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
-- Michael O'Leary -
We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.
-- Michael O'Leary -
Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.
-- Michael O'Leary -
Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"
-- Michael O'Leary -
Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.
-- Adolph Malan -
Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'
-- Adolph Malan -
Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.
-- Adolph Malan -
Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!
-- Adolph Malan -
When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.
-- Adolph Malan -
I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.
-- Alfred Kahn -
This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.
-- Amy Johnson -
I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
-- Brian Jones -
Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.
-- Oswald Boelcke -
If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
-- Oswald Boelcke -
Always carry through an attack when you have started it.
-- Oswald Boelcke -
In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.
-- Oswald Boelcke -
How does 2002 bombing accident in Afghanistan happen? In this awful case it took so many lives, and I want to assure the families and the people of Canada that these questions will be answered. How this can happen is a mystery to us.
-- Ray Henault -
I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.
-- Elrey Borge Jeppesen -
I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.
-- Elrey Borge Jeppesen -
I have flown ValuJet. ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system.
-- Federico Pena -
There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!
-- Roscoe Turner -
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
