Aviation Quotes

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  The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Clouds, Flying High

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4707, Delphi Classics

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  Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.

  Neil Armstrong

  Joy, Flying, Special

  "In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility". Book by Francis French and Colin Burgess, September 2007.

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• To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.

  Jerry Crawford

  Home, Sky, People

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• The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

  Amelia Earhart

  Flying, Flight, Lure

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.32, Crown

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• The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Airplane, Science

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• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Airplane, Impossible, Achieve

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• And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.

  Elrey Borge Jeppesen

  Artist, Differences, Pilots

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• The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Emergencies, Happens, Train

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• But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mean, People, Pilots

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  Neil Armstrong

  Science, Flying, Survival

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• My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Distance, Two, Feet

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• Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end.

  Chuck Aaron

  Giving Up, Never Quit, Quitting

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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 most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

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• Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

  Stephen Coonts

  Romance, Flight, Attraction

  Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.

  Walter Alexander Raleigh

  Heart, Flying, Soul

  Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Henry Albert Jones (1922). “The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...”, The Clarendon Press

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• Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

  Plautus

  Wings, Flying, Flight

  "Plautus: The little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The ro".

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  My soul is in the sky.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Sky, Flying

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.178, Callisto Media Inc

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• 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

  Needs, Amtrak, Highways

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• 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

  Mean, Mastery, Stories

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• If you don't like what you see, stop looking.

  Nancy Lopez

  Oleanders, Bodybuilding Motivation, Pilots And Flying

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• I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does.

  Robert Six

  Blood, People, Doe

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• Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

  Amelia Earhart

  Travel, Fun, Flying

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• I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Frustration, Confusion

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• The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.

  Ross Macpherson Smith

  Men, Air, Pilots

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