The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

- William Langewiesche

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 …

- William Langewiesche

So much of who we are is where we have been.

- William Langewiesche

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

- William Langewiesche

Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours

- William Langewiesche

Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.

- William Langewiesche

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

- William Langewiesche