Great Aviation Quotes - Page 7

• In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Children, Airplane

  Pluck and Luck (1925)

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• Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Hard Times, Skills

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  As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

  Amelia Earhart

  Aviation, Left

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• Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Adventure, Space

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of values”, Harcourt

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• Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Adventure, Discovery, Flying

  ANNE MORROW lINDBERGH (1973). “HOUR OF GOLD HOUR OF LEAD”

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• Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Beauty, Adventure, Flying

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.

  L. Welch Pogue

  Ocean, Home, Airplane

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• The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.

  Len Morgan

  Airplane, Flying, Way

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• Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience.

  Johnnie Johnson

  Men, Hands, Practice

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• To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

  Nevil Shute

  Airplane, Climbing, Flying

  Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

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• We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.

  Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton

  Airplane, Flying, Want

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

  Igor Sikorsky

  Airplane, Miracle, Flying

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• Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

  Jean Batten

  Travel, Ocean, Airplane

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• The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.

  Richard Bach

  Airplane, Sky, Joy

  Richard Bach (2012). “Nothing By Chance”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

  William T. Piper

  Dog, Baby, Nature

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• This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how well you know and understand your airplane and your own limitations. Luck is the sum total of your of abilities as an aviator. If you think your luck is running low, you'd better get busy and make some more. Work harder. Pay more attention. Do better preflights.

  Stephen Coonts

  Running, Hard Work, Thinking

  "The Intruders". Book by Stephen Coonts, 1994.

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• It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

  Publilius Syrus

  Aviation, Good Things, Misfortunes Of Others

  "Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs". Book by Adam Woolbever, 1881.

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• Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Jobs, Play, Aviation

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and muscles frequently originate movements which suggest flight; and then there are pilots who regardless of their airborne time remain earth-loving bipeds forever. When these latter unfortunates, because of one urge or another, actually make an ascension, they neither anticipate nor relish the event and they drive their machines with the same graceless labor they inflict upon the family vehicle.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Views, Bird, Forever

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• The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.

  Francis Collins

  Nerves, Aviation, Airmen

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• Airshow flying is tough, it's even tougher if you do something stupid. Don't do nuthin dumb!

  Ralph Royce

  Stupid, Flying, Dumb

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• I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

  William Langewiesche

  Airplane, Simple, Hunting

  William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon

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• And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on the ground like a frightened canary every time there was a cloud in the sky. If a pilot showed an obvious preference for flying only in the best conditions he soon found himself looking for work. This was the way of his life and he had always ascended when others had found excuse to keep their feet on the ground.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Clouds, Sky, Feet

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• Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Flying, Aviation, Relaxed

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• It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Brother, Prayer, Believe

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