Aviation Quotes - Page 36

• What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

  Carl Sandburg

  Boys, Men, Ideas

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.582, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

  Duncan Campbell Scott

  Wind, Sovereign, Safe

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• I came to admire this machine which could lift virtually any load strapped to its back and carry it anywhere in any weather, safely and dependably. The C-47 groaned, it protested, it rattled, it leaked oil, it ran hot, it ran cold, it ran rough, it staggered along on hot days and scared you half to death, its wings flexed and twisted in a horrifying manner, it sank back to earth with a great sigh of relief - but it flew and it flew and it flew.

  Len Morgan

  Sigh Of Relief, Wings, Weather

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• ... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2--ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Senior, Airplane, Europe

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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• Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Giving, Fifty, Flight

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• It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?'

  Ernest K. Gann

  School, Thinking, After Hours

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• I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It you can't fix it, don't worry about it; accept it and do the best you can.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Philosophy, Simple, People

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• I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.

  Elrey Borge Jeppesen

  Sky, Done, Flight

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• I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

  Elrey Borge Jeppesen

  Age, Flight, Preserves

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• I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a feast ... I shall keep them forever. As stunning exciting proof that a proper mixture of science and art is not only possible but a blessed union.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Art, Blessed, Forever

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Confused, Maps, Territory

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• Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

  George MacDonald

  Eye, Blue, Sky

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.694, e-artnow

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• The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.

  Christopher Cockerell

  Army, Air, Royal

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• Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.

  Theodore von Karman

  Flight

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• There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Girl, Dresses, World

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• Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)."

  Kingsley Amis

  Sex, Hangover, Hydration

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• The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wish, Able, Flight

  Sigmund Freud (2013). “Leonardo da Vinci”, p.75, Routledge

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• A free ride and free food are two of the three things no pilot ever turns down.

  Dick Rutan

  Two, Three, Free Food

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• To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility. When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Real, Night, Men

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.279, Open Road Media

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• In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a passing train and wave at the engineer. The whole sky belonged to you. now there are so many regulations. The sky is crowded. All the fun is gone.

  Katherine Stinson

  Fun, Sky, Tree

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• Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then dress it out to the limit of your wallet and taste.

  Stephen Coonts

  Airplane, Guy, Trying

  Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Pilots, Flight, Helicopters

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• This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Earth, Flight, Eternity

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• We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night She'd tell me to make a wish I'd wish we both could fly.

  James McMurtry

  Stars, Night, Wish

  Song: Levelland

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• It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.

  Glenn Curtiss

  Sports, Places To Go, Flight

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