Great Aviation Quotes - Page 3

• If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.

  Bob Hoover

  Flying, Pilots, Aviation

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• Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.

  Bill Harry

  Flying, Aviation, Paint

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• The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

  Bill Gates

  Travel, Brother, Writing

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• An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one.

  Len Morgan

  Airplane, Pilots, Might

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• Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.

  Stephen Coonts

  Mistake, Pilots, Aviation

  Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.54, Open Road Media

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• I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

  Chuck Yeager

  Differences, Flying, Chinese

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• The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.

  Charles Kingsford Smith

  Fire, Boards, Fuel

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• You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Thinking, Fog, Snow

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• No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Air, Flying, Inspire

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• To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.

  Jerry Crawford

  Home, Sky, People

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• You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

  Amelia Earhart

  Airplane, Sky, Tree

  "How Aerial Photography Changes A Photographer’s Perspective" by Heather Hummel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2014.

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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

  Nancy Lopez

  Oleanders, Aviation, Bodybuilding Motivation

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• A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Italian, Taxes Funny

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• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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• I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Airplane, Flying

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• The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.

  Louis Bleriot

  Beautiful, Dream, Heart

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• I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Night, Jumping

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• Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.

  Bevo Howard

  Pockets, Pilots, Hips

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• Flying is done largely with the imagination.

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Imagination, Flying, Done

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• Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Witty, Fear

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

  Chuck Yeager

  Pilots, Aviation, Flight

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

  Richard Bach

  Flying, Gulls, Facts

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

  Richard Bach

  Ignorance, Skills, Flying

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

  Aesop

  Being Yourself, Bird, Fables

  "The Jay and the Peacock". A fable by Aesop,

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