Collection of Insightful Quotes about Flying!

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Collection of Insightful Quotes about Flying!

1. A great nation must have its own large commercial aircraft. The air transportation industry of China cannot completely rely on imports. — Li Jiaxiang, head of China’s civil aviation authority..
2. A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I’m afraid, lying. — Louise Thaden.
3. Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps. — Ernest K. Gann.
4. 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. – Ajith Kumar.
5. Clearly this was an out of the ordinary landing, but I was just doing my job and any one of our pilots would have taken the same actions. — Captain David Williams.
6. Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune. — Sophocles.
7. Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven: That is by letters written with their quills. — Leonardo da Vinci.
8. Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles A. Lindbergh.
9. 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. — Lt. Col. Christine Mau, 33rd Fighter Wing Operations Group Deputy Commander.
10. Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. — Gregory ''Pappy'' Boyington.
11. Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. — Douglas Adams.
12. Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
13. For God’s sake, open the door! — Captain Patrick Sondheimer of the doomed passenger Germanwings jet shouted to co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, as co-pilot deliberately crashed the aircraft into the French Alps, according to black box transcripts.
14. Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then “go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls). — Kingsley Amis.
15. I hate sailing. — Troy Bradley, after landing his balloon in the ocean.
16. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. — Amelia Earhart.
17. 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. — Lt. Col. Merryl Tengesda.
18. I learned the discipline of flying in order to have the freedom of flight....Discipline prevents crashes. — Captain John Cook.
19. I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport. — Amy Johnson.
20. 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. — General Chuck Yeager.
21. It isn’t often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it. — Samuel Hynes, ‘A Teller of Tales Tells His Own’.
22. It’s congenital really. We’re an aspiring species that doesn’t have wings. What else would we dream of? — Mark Vanhoenacker.
23. 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. – Wilbur Wright.
24. 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. — Amelia Earhart.
25. Never fly the A model of anything. — Edward Thompson, World War II Pilot.
26. Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots. — David Neeleman.
27. 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! — Richard Bach.
28. 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. — John Tracy, Chief Technology Officer, Boeing.
29. The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. – Walter Raleigh
30. The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away. — Harrison Ford.
31. The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.— Friedrich Nietzsche.
32. The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I’d rather fly. — Len Morgan.
33. 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. — Bill Gates.
34. There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. – Orson Welles.
35. There is an art to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
36. 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. — Richard Bach
37. To most people the sky is the limit. To those who love flying, the sky is home. — Unknown.
38. We don’t really have any kind of regulatory structure at all. — President Barack Obama, concerning drone regulations.
39. When 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. — John H. Secondari
40. When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense. — David Letterman.