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.
Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.
The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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.
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.
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.
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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!
Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end.
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.
The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
My soul is in the sky.
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.
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.
If you don't like what you see, stop looking.
I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
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.
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