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Aviation Quotes - Page 5

Always carry through an attack when you have started it.

Always carry through an attack when you have started it.

Oswald Boelcke
Aviation, Combat

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Martial
Joy, Aviation, Flight
Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

John Townsend Trowbridge
Bird, Aviation, Bluebird
John Townsend Trowbridge (1869). “Vagabonds: And Other Poems”, p.115

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

Jeane Kirkpatrick
Civilized Nations, Air Power, Aviation
Jeane Kirkpatrick's speech to the U.N. Security Council, www.upi.com. September 6, 1983.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

Isak Dinesen
Joy, Vision, Aviation
Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.

Herb Kelleher
Pain, Aviation, Ass

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

Gordon Bethune
Airline Business, Size, Aviation

I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.

Frank Lorenzo
Aviation, Imagine, Chapters

People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.

David Neeleman
People, World, Aviation
"Column: Boring? Not These Airline Execs" by Rick Seaney, abcnews.go.com. October 5, 2012.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

Chuck Yeager
Pilots, Aviation, Flight
Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

Cecil Day-Lewis
Aviation, Flight, Gravity

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Bertrand Piccard
Inspire, Aviation, Should

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Avi Arad
Despair, Aviation, Clean

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Amelia Earhart
Pilots, Aviation, Flight
Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

Alan Shepard
Airplane, Roger, Aviation
Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton (2011). “Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings”, p.130, Open Road Media

Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.

William P. Driscoll
Sloppiness, Aviation, Speed

It's a great day for TWA.

William Compton
Great Day, Aviation, Airline

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

Steve Fossett
Flying, Aviation, Boring

Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation, it is also civilian aviation and airpower is peace power.

Roscoe Turner
Military, World, Aviation

There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

Roscoe Turner
Airplane, Aviation, Flight

I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

Robert Crandall
Airline Business, Guy, Aviation

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Publilius Syrus
Aviation, Good Things, Misfortunes Of Others
"Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs". Book by Adam Woolbever, 1881.

All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

Octave Chanute
Air, Flying, Aviation

To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.

John Trevor Godfrey
Thinking, Pilots, Aviation
John Trevor Godfrey (1958). “The look of eagles”

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
Carrying On, Aviation, Predictions

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