Aviation Quotes - Page 9

• Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Airplane, Miracle, Flying

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• The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Dream, Horse, Men

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• Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills.

  Pancho Barnes

  Sex, Flying, Bills

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• Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.

  Mickey Rupp

  Night, Air, Racing

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• "Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all flying is flying in the face of nature. It's unnatural, wicked and stuffed with risks all the time. The secret to flying is learning to minimize the risks." "Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?"

  Gavin Lyall

  Men, Wings, Flying

  Gavin Lyall (2013). “Shooting Script”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

  Richard Bach

  Sweet Love, Humble, Lovely

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.187, Dell

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• Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

  Diane Ackerman

  Ideas, Space, Flying

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• In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.

  Jacqueline Auriol

  Littles, Pilots, Madness

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• It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.

  Jose Yacopi

  Trying, Earth, Flight

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• Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky . . .

  Georges Besancon

  Art, Space, Sky

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• The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Jealous, Fighting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.

  Avi Arad

  Technology, Years, People

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. February 10, 2004.

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• It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

  Helen Keller

  Women, Sky, Flying

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• The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

  C. Maxwell Stanley

  Airplane, World, Pilots

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• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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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 highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

  Richard Bach

  Art, Airplane, Machines

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.102, Dell

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• Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

  James Dickey

  Men, Flying, Pilots

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• I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Stars, Wind, Might

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• I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How detached the intimate things around me seem from the great world down below. How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away. This air, stirring mildly around me. That air, rushing by with the speed of a tornado, an inch beyond. These minute details in my cockpit. The grandeur of the world outside. The nearness of death. The longness of life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Rushing, Space

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• He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

  Neil Armstrong

  Flight, Casts, Millions

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• Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!

  Gabriele d'Annunzio

  Men, Space, Air

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• I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play upon the banking, wheeling wings, I am completely, vibrantly alive. With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.

  Stephen Coonts

  Song, Hands, Essence

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• I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky.

  Gordon Cooper

  Airplane, Sky, Wings

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• If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.

  Louise Thaden

  Husband, Men, Wife

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press

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