Quotes About Aviation

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

I'm terrified of flying and have tried everything from prescription drugs to booze and herbal remedies. The only thing that works is Valium. I don't know why I'm so frightened - I think it's from seeing my mum freak out when I was young.

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

I might not earn loads, but I can proudly say that I've travelled the world, met the Queen and flown with the Red Arrows.

In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller.

We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

I'm a keen traveller, and I'm a nerd with planes and airports.

Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels.

About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.

I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.

Hey, you know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting.

The main object of the dogfight was to get on the opponent's tail – hence the name. The German word for

dogfight' is 'Kurvenkampf'' i.e. turning fight.

All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.

And a whole lot of people who go flying with him and his pilots get a taste of real flying, not the airline passenger stuff, which is to flying what masturbation is to sex, merely a pale imitation of the real thing.