Aviation Quotes - Page 13

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

  Neil Armstrong

  Science, Flying, Survival

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• Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Air, Railroads, Lines

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.123, Princeton University Press

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• The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Different, Triangles

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am sure, become one of the most popular. Many of us will perish before then, but that prospect will not dismay the braver spirits. . . . It is so delicious to fly like a bird!

  Marie Marvingt

  Sports, Bird, Spirit

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

  Nancy Lopez

  Oleanders, Bodybuilding Motivation, Pilots And Flying

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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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• I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.

  Yves Rossy

  Bird, Littles, Flight

  "Jetman tries again with Channel bid". www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2008.

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• As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Air Power, Arms, Weapons

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• 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

  Military, World, Airpower

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• The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

  Steve Fossett

  Flying, Boring, Good Things

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• Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

  Adolf Galland

  Achievement, Stronger, Air Power

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Airplane, Flying, Air Power

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• 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

  Thinking, One Day, March

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.

  Alex James

  Flying, Machines, Thrill

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