Aviation quotes

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◆ Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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◆ There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings.

- Wilbur Wright99

◆ You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

- Amelia Earhart99

◆ My soul is in the sky.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Gliders, sailplanes, they are wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

- Neil Armstrong99

◆ The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.

- Orville Wright99

◆ Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin.

- K O Eckland99

◆ The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of Gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

- Plato99

◆ Man must rise above the Earth...o the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

- Socrates99

◆ 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 Twain99

◆ I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery99

◆ 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 Langewiesche99

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

- Edward Vernon Rickenbacker99

◆ To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

- Otto Lilienthal99

◆ It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

- Helen Keller99