Flying Quotes

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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity

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

Edward Rickenbacker

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Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

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I watched him strap on his harness and helmet, climb into th

I watched him strap on his harness and helmet, climb into the cockpit and, minutes later, a black dot falls off the wing two thousand feet above our field. At almost the same instant, a white streak behind him flowered out into the delicate wavering muslin of a parachute -- a few gossamer yards grasping onto air and suspending below them, with invisible threads, a human life, and man who by stitches, cloth, and cord, had made himself a god of the sky for those immortal moments.

Charles A. Lindbergh

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Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one

Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.

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A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good plac

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

Shana Alexander

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Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few se

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Gregory ''Pappy'' Boyington

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There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed t

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream

It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment...

Harry Potter J K Rowling Flying

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as t

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

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Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhap

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

Madame Chiang KaiShek

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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised bet

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

Alexander Chase

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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart, The Fun of It, 1

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