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Aviation Quotes

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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Friedrich Nietzsche

'The further we rise, the less noticeable we are to those who cannot ascend.'
Authors on Aviation Quotes: Adolph Malan Amelia Earhart Oswald Boelcke Michael O'Leary Richard Branson Stephen Coonts Gordon Bethune Erich Hartmann Manfred von Richthofen Eddie Rickenbacker Chuck Yeager C. R. Smith Ernest K. Gann Avi Arad Neil Armstrong Chesley Sullenberger Bertrand Piccard Bruce Dickinson Roscoe Turner Gordon Baxter William Bushnell Stout Steve Fossett David Neeleman Don Burr Alfred Kahn Bob Hoover Arthur Whitten Brown Winston Churchill Richard Bach Vladimir Putin Robert Crandall Herb Kelleher Plautus
2.
The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
Hermann Goring

The citizens of the United States lack the capability of manufacturing aircrafts, yet they excel at constructing fridges and razors.
3.
You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
Neil Armstrong

4.
I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
Howard Hughes

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If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
Bob Hoover

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As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.
Amelia Earhart

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If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
Chuck Yeager

8.
I refused to take no for an answer.
Bessie Coleman

9.
See, decide, attack, reverse.
Erich Hartmann

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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Eddie Rickenbacker

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There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.
Robin Olds

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It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.
Louis Bleriot

13.
I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
Brian Jones

14.
I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.
John Glenn

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A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.
Henry H. Arnold

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I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.
Howard Hughes

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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

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If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.
Erich Hartmann

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Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.
William K. Kershner

20.
Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.
Michael Parfit

21.
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.
Bernard Law Montgomery

22.
Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.
Thomas McGuire

23.
The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.
Igor Sikorsky

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It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. The were made to fly as wingman, instead.
Erich Hartmann

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

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Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.
Gordon Baxter

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This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.
Amy Johnson

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

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I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.
Eddie Rickenbacker

30.
Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!
Manfred von Richthofen

31.
Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.
Felix Baumgartner

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Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.
Manfred von Richthofen

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The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
Sigmund Freud

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

35.
If you don't like what you see, stop looking.
Nancy Lopez

36.
Nothing said I had to crash.
Bob Hoover

37.
I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.
Jacqueline Cochran

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The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.
Manfred von Richthofen

39.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
Steve Prefontaine

40.
Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime.
Pancho Barnes

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Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.
Stephen Coonts

42.
There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.
Gordon Bethune

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Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.
Tony Fernandes

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I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.
Eddie Rickenbacker

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I just made a balls of it, old boy. That's all there was to it.
Douglas Bader

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It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But if your airplane breaks down, you can't sit on a convenient cloud and tinker with that!
Katherine Stinson

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With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.
Glenn Curtiss

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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
Quintus Ennius

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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
Carl Sagan

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‎‎‎‎Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
Michael O'Leary