Douglas Adams: Aviation
There is an art to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
(From: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
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Richard Bach: Aviation
Same with anyone who’s been flying for years and loves it still… we’re part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we’re one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!
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Richard Bach: Aviation
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Aviation
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
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Amelia Earhart: Aviation
Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.
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Bill Gates: Aviation
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
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Samuel Hynes: Aviation
It isn’t often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.
(From: A Teller of Tales Tells His Own)
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Li Jiaxiang: Aviation
A great nation must have its own large commercial aircraft. The air transportation industry of China cannot completely rely on imports.
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Amy Johnson: Aviation
I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport.
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Ajith Kumar: Aviation
Aren’t we all dreamers? It’s only because man dreamt of flying that we are travelling in planes. Behind all inventions, we see the dreams of people.
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Lt. Col. Christine Mau: Aviation
Flying is a great equalizer. The plane doesn’t know or care about your gender as a pilot, nor do the ground troops who need your support. You just have to perform. That’s all anyone cares about when you’re up there – that you can do your job, and that you do it exceptionally well.
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Len Morgan: Aviation
The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I’d rather fly.
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Geno Redmon: Aviation
I’ve got troops in contact
Pinned down by the Tali
Made one more pass, way low on gas
“I need vectors for the tanker.”
Tonight my wounded warriors
Need medevac to Landstuhl.
A double A/R out of Kandahar
“I need vectors for the tanker.”
The Kims and their kin are at it again,
In far away Korea
We are looking tough, with my cell of Buffs
“I need vectors to the tanker.”
Earthquake, flood or famine
The world needs US aid
The air bridge is faster, to any disaster
“I need vectors to the tanker.”
NKA…WTG!
We take pride in this expression.
Day or night, we fuel the fight.
“I need vectors to the tanker.”
A CSAR helo has been launched
A grim hunt for 3 survivors.
A burned patch is found, now hallowed ground.
“I need vectors to the tanker.”
Today a crew is coming home.
Boom stowed and bound for heaven.
They passed their gas, now haulin’ ass.
“I need vectors for the tanker.”
All SAC aircrews please stand by
This is GOD on “Guard.”
Lemay and I from up on high
“Are giving vectors to the tanker.”
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Captain Patrick Sondheimer: Aviation
For God’s sake, open the door!
(Pilot on Germanwings Flight 9525, trying to return to cockpit after copilot had locked the door and intentionally initiated a fatal crash of the aircraft.)
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Lt. Col. Merryl Tengesda: Aviation
I have seen the curvature of the earth. I have seen sights most people will never see. Flying at more than 70,000 feet is really beautiful and peaceful. I enjoy the quiet, hearing myself breathing, and the hum of the engine. I never take it for granted.
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John Tracy: Aviation
Some of our freighter companies are asking us for [single pilot airliners]. We are quite confident, technologically, that the toolkit is filled. With respect to commercial airplanes, there is no doubt in our minds that we can solve the problem of autonomous flight.
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Wilbur Wright: Aviation
More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination.
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Chuck Yeager: Aviation
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
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