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

- Ernest K. Gann

As the years go by, he returns to this invisible world rather than to earth for peace and solace. There also he finds a profound enchantment, althoug…

- Ernest K. Gann

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their pr…

- Ernest K. Gann

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 t…

- Ernest K. Gann

The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.

- Ernest K. Gann

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

- Ernest K. Gann

There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress.

- Ernest K. Gann

Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.

- Ernest K. Gann

Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental law of man. Aloft, at least for a lit…

- Ernest K. Gann