Aviation quotes

I don’t fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.