Quotes on Aviation

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.

O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Through you, we feel as giants, once again.

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.