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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive. -- Corrine Brown
You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure. -- Janet Napolitano
In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too. -- Burt Rutan
My soul is in the sky. -- William Shakespeare
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. -- Neil Armstrong
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. -- Albert Einstein
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. -- Freeman Dyson
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating. -- Felix Baumgartner
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. -- James Dickey
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. -- Robert Benchley
The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul. -- Walter Alexander Raleigh
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. -- Ferdinand Foch
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible -- Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future. -- Amelia Earhart
More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999. -- Norm Dicks
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. -- Helen Keller
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science. -- Amelia Earhart
Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers. -- Avi Arad
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. -- Amelia Earhart
To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home. -- Jerry Crawford
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. -- Barry Goldwater
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing. -- Avi Arad
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich. -- Tony Fernandes
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. -- Adolf Galland
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich. -- Tony Fernandes
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. -- Helen Keller
Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words. -- Jessie Redmon Fauset
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space. -- Wilson Greatbatch
Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe. -- Mark Twain
The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation. -- Neelie Kroes
Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples. -- Charles Lindbergh
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert. -- Christian Morgenstern
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
Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Western European civilization. -- Charles Lindbergh
Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war. -- Keith B. McCutcheon
Infantry, Artillery, Aviation--all that we have--are yours to dispose of as you will. . . . I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history. -- John J. Pershing
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. -- Mary Garden
I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight. -- Rainn Wilson
On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film. -- Avi Arad
There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. -- Chesley Sullenberger
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation. -- Arnold Palmer
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour. -- Steve Fossett
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude. -- John Travolta
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation. -- Tom Stoppard
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
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small -- William Langewiesche
I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license. -- Ellen Ochoa
If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore? -- Graham Hawkes
Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day. -- Janet Napolitano
I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here. -- Kim Novak
You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together. -- Anthony Foxx
In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think. -- Dennis Quaid
I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force. -- Michael P. Anderson
My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better. -- Chesley Sullenberger
The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations. -- Anthony Albanese
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public. -- Tom Wolfe
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news. -- Susan Orlean
South Wales is a hub of aviation. -- Bruce Dickinson
People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world. -- David Neeleman
The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation. -- Arthur C. Clarke
I'd manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else. -- Louis R. Chenevert
I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation. -- Howard Hughes
I have flown ValuJet, ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system. -- Federico Pena
For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft -- Jim Lovell
I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does. -- Robert Six
I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights. -- Joseph Force Crater
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation. -- Neil Armstrong
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. -- Elon Musk
This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth. -- Juan Trippe
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. -- Simon Newcomb
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with Â£10m.' -- Bruce Dickinson
The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market. -- Erik Lindbergh
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs. -- Annie Jacobsen
Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy. -- Omar N. Bradley
Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life. -- Brian Sandoval
Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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
The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food. -- Bob Blumer
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation. -- Igor Sikorsky
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small. -- William Langewiesche
I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake. -- Chuichi Nagumo
We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes. -- Deborah Hersman
The aviation industry, including combat air force, has been traditionally developing here. It is the Russian Far East where the SU aircraft, which are well known worldwide, are manufactured. -- Vladimir Putin
I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course. -- Tom Stoppard
There is also a huge potential for developing the aviation and space industries. As you might have noticed we have launched a new Russian spaceport in one of the Far Eastern regions. -- Vladimir Putin
As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero. -- Warren Buffett
There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars. -- Mike Batt
There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as an aviation incident. There are other vulnerabilities to be dealt with. -- James M. Loy
At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing in the South StationAnd not in that part of the daily press which is reserved for victims of aviation. -- Ogden Nash

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