You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.
I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.
Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.
As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.
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.
Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.
I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.
The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were no undesirable flight characteristics. The directional stability was excellent and, properly trimmed, the B-17 could be taken off, landed and banked without change of trim.
When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.
Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.
Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat. , Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent. ] [Alt. , Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. ]
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.
I have flown ValuJet, ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system.
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.
I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"
The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.