Aviation Quotes - Page 9

• Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Airplane, Miracle, Flying

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• Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

  Romain Rolland

  Air, Space, Elements

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• The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .

  Arthur David Beaty

  Air, Sea, Challenges

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• These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lakes, Hands, Jewels

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• To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from the petty disputes of everyday life, to be active, to feel the blood renewed in one's vein - ah! that is life. . . . Life in finer and simpler. My will is freer. I appreciate everything more, sunlight and shade, work and my friends. The sky is vast. I breathe deep gulps of the fine clear air of the heights. I feel myself to have achieved a higher state of physical strength and a clearer brain. I am living in the third dimension!

  Henri Mignet

  Air, Blood, Sky

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• The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Dream, Horse, Men

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• Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills.

  Pancho Barnes

  Sex, Flying, Bills

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• Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.

  Mickey Rupp

  Night, Air, Racing

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• 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

  Trying, Earth, Flight

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• Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky . . .

  Georges Besancon

  Art, Space, Sky

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• The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Jealous, Fighting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.

  Avi Arad

  Technology, Years, People

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. February 10, 2004.

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• It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

  Helen Keller

  Women, Sky, Flying

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• The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

  C. Maxwell Stanley

  Airplane, World, Pilots

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• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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• Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

  Barry Goldwater

  Men, Flying, Pilots

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

  Richard Bach

  Art, Airplane, Machines

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.102, Dell

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

  James Dickey

  Men, Flying, Pilots

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• It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything."

  Isak Dinesen

  Discovery, Ideas, Joy

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I gently began to throttle back and the speed of ascent dwindled till I was hovering motionless in midair. This was intoxicating! I thought of the lark, so light and small of wing, hovering over the summer fields. Now man had wrested from him his lovely secret.

  Hanna Reitsch

  Summer, Men, Light

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• High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Flight, Gravity

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• Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Real, Flying

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.126, Penguin

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• Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of belonging to the sky, of owning and being owned - if only for a moment - by the air I breathe. It is akin to the well known claim of the swallow: each bird staking out his personal bug-strewn slice of heaven, his inviolate property of the blue.

  Guy Murchie

  Blue, Sky, Air

  Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.299, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. Riding through the air on silver wings instead of sailing the seas with white wings, he must steer his own course, for the air is uncharted, and he must therefore explore for himself the strange eddies and currents of the ever-changing sky in its many moods.

  Jean Batten

  Ocean, Sea, Land

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• I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.

  Beryl Markham

  Adventure, Knowing, Air

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.14, Open Road Media

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