Aviation Quotes - Page 23

• Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Military, Opportunity, Air

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• Offense is the essence of air power.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Military, Air, Essence

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• The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.

  Carl Andrew Spaatz

  Military, War, Loss

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• Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.

  Carl Andrew Spaatz

  Military, Air, Numbers

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• In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.

  Carl Andrew Spaatz

  Military, War, Home

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• Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Sports, Military, Fighting

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• They will speak of things that are spiritual and beautiful and of things that are practical and utilitarian; they will mix up angels and engines, sunsets and spark plugs, fraternity and frequencies in one all-encompassing comradeship of interests that makes for the best and most lasting kind of friendship any man can have.

  Percy Knauth

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Sunset

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• In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have said nothing to make me more proud; every Chick was needed before the end.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Fighting, Air Power, Proud

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• I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

  Winston Churchill

  Regret, Race, Records

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• The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Military, Air

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• Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

  Josephus Daniels

  Writing, Men, Dimes

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• Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Men

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• There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Lying, Space, Important

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• I saw the lightnings gleaming rod.
  Reach forth and write upon the sky
  The awful autograph of God.

  Joaquin Miller

  Writing, Sky, Lightning

  "Shadows of Shasta". Book by Joaquin Miller. Epigraph, 1881.

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• The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Air, Ordinary

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• Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
  Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
  Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
  The flying chariot through the field of air.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Air, Wings, Car

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.22

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• When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Thinking, Nuts

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• Simplicate, and add lightness!

  William Bushnell Stout

  Add, Flight, Lightness

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• The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Horse, Distance, Men

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare
  Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.

  Richard Owen Cambridge

  Light, Air, Wings

  Richard Owen Cambridge (1751). “The Scribleriad: An Heroic Poem. In Six Books”

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• If a kid is really interested in wanting to have a career in aviation, he's actually learning and getting some of the [basics], not even just fringe. There are things in here that movie [Planes] about like the pulp of an engine, and it's the actual engine, the actual parts and pieces. So I felt like I got schooled as well. I learned a lot just being in there and doing that.

  Dane Cook

  Kids, Careers, Just Being

  "Dane Cook Talks PLANES, Working on a Disney Animated Movie, Learning Aviation Jargon, and PLANES Sequel". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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• Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

  Martial

  Joy, Flight, Pluck

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

  Wendell Willkie

  Airplane, World, Dimensions

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• Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

  Jessie Redmon Fauset

  Moving, Flying, Way

  Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “Comedy: American Style”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.

  James Ira Thomas Jones

  War, School, Pals

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