Quotes About Aviation

Thirty-eight U.S. military women who died were members of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, the WAFS, and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the WASPs, who flew military aircraft on noncombat missions to keep male pilots fresh and available for battle.

THE SLED DOG TEAM PASSES THE PBY DUMBO

Ronson Aviation hangar at the Trenton-Mercer Airport.

Pritchard buzzed them again, wagging his wings and waving from the cockpit. The dejected PN9E crew thought that was the last they'd see of the plane. But as they watched, Pritchard circled lower and lower over an area several miles away. On Pritchard's orders, Bottoms radioed: "Coming in anyway.

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

let us not overlook that pioneer of aviation Oliver of Malmesbury, who in 1065 made a glider on which he launched himself from a church tower. He was discouraged by the breaking of both legs.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

The future is in the skies.

Dressed for the minus-thirty-degree temperatures at high altitude (wool underwear, two pairs of wool socks, a wool sweater, a brown leather jacket lined with sheep's wool, and heavy trousers), Roane crossed the cold, fog-ridden airfield and gathered with the other pilots and aircrews in the huge Nissen hut used for briefings.

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.

I remember Mac retorting that hundreds of years ago there was a Hindi word for a craft that flew in the air, long before the airplane was invented, but that did not mean that airplanes existed in ancient India.

He could even have come by air, as individual balloonists already had.

The airplane was a complicated system encompassing many components, but to a skilled pilot it still had the intimate quality of a hand tool. The love that lays the swale in rows is also the love that parts the clouds for the stick-and-rudder man.

A stray round blasted into her right wing

For example, in the airline business people talk about the 'olive factor' – if you forget to put the olive in the martini, the customer thinks you will forget to put the wheels down when you land the plane, and this is not regarded as a good idea.

A private plane sits on a runway in Martha's Vineyard, forward stairs deployed.

The aviation prizes, such as the Orteig Prize, built the aviation industry into what it is today. The competitors for the aviation prizes captured our imagination and instilled a sense of adventure in all of us which allowed aviation to grow as an industry with the support of the public. The X PRIZE, like the Orteig Prize before it, offers the spark needed to inspire the entrepreneurial spirit necessary to build this new industry and make us a true space-faring civilization.

I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.

At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing in the South Station And not in that part of the daily press which is reserved for victims of aviation.

I find it very hard to be fair-minded About people who go around being air-minded.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.

The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.

We had taken up aeronautics merely as a sport. We reluctantly entered upon the scientific side of it.