Quotes About Aviation

Sanjay had crashed his light aircraft when he was stunt-flying over central Delhi.

In response to how he checked the weather, "I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it and read what it says: 'When color of card matches color of sky, FLY!'"

This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

The future is in the skies.

The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.

It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment. Until then, America thought she was witnessing nothing more serious than the worst aviation disaster in history; now she had a sense of the fantastic vehemence ranged against her.

For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.

My Five senses of you, my cabin crew...Seeing your fair face, makes me happy. Hearing your sweet voice, makes me calm. Smelling your honey scented hair, energize me. Touching your soft skins, makes me feel so safe...and knowing that you'll be flying again, kills me...

I love to fly. It's just you're alone, there's peace and quiet, nothing around you but clear blue sky. No one to hassle you. No one to tell you where to go or what to do. The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to the fuckin' world.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

German test pilot Ernst Canter noted in his logbook that while in 1910 he flew at a height of eighty feet, two years later he was ascending to almost 5,000.

A meme a day keeps the planes away.

Royal Air Force.

be a British pilot in the Royal Air Force, press here. To be an American pilot fighting in the Pacific Ocean, press here. To be a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, press here.

Pilots sometimes called this "the 200th hour" – when you knew just enough, and were confident enough, to make your first really big fuck-up.

By 1945, New Guinea was home to more missing airplanes than any country on earth.