Aviation Sayings and Quotes

Aviation has had a huge impact on the way people travel. Trips that used to take weeks by ship, now take hours, making it easier to explore new destinations. Celebrate this feat in engineering with the collection of wise and insightful aviation quotes below.

To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home. Jerry Crawford
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own. Richard Bach
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. Alexander Chase
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see. Charles A. Lindbergh
Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. Eddie Rickenbacker
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
Fly and you will catch the swallow. James Howell
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
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
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. Neil Armstrong
Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future. Amelia Earhart
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space on the infinite highway of the air. Wilbur Wrigh
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. Barry Goldwater
Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery the epitome of breaking into new worlds. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. Freeman Dyson
In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds. Erich Hartmann
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. Adolf Galland
Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation especially in its military aspects. Charles Lindbergh
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. Richard Bach
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 Turne
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. Ferdinand Foch
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
Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle. Igor Sikorsky
The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport. Orville Wright
Flying is a lot like playing a musical instrument; you're doing so many things and thinking of so many other things, all at the same time. It becomes a spiritual experience. Dusty Mctavish
The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience and will not change as they change. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In reference to flying through thunderstorms; A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At the time of incident he would gladly return the entire amount for the privilege of being elsewhere. Ernest K. Gann
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end. Chuck Aaron
The only characteristic all airliners share is that upon proper urging they are normally capable of leaving the earth's surface. Ernest K. Gann
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. James Dickey
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
Can there exist an aircraft in space without a pair of steel wings. Nikhil Parekh
Can the magnanimous aircraft hovering at unprecedented heights in the air; ever dream of maneuvering through the crowded city streets? Nikhil Parekh
When i fly in the aircraft at unsurpassable heights from ground / The flight steward serves tall beer mugs of juice / I feel like floating in blue air of the bare sky / With my body strapped firmly to chords of parachute. Nikhil Parekh
In the wings of the overwhelmingly zipping aircraft; / I ecstatically felt as if I was being spell bindingly devoured; / By a majestically volatile fervor to gallop resurgently; / Throughout the tenure of my diminutively impoverished life. Nikhil Parekh
How could you ever call a miserly auto rickshaw an aircraft; / Just because it increased its speed to a threadbare maximum; every once in a while? Nikhil Parekh
To get out of the flying aircraft; / I used a buoyant parachute to blissfully cascade down on the verdant and perpetually green lawns. Nikhil Parekh
I wanted to be like the aircraft with twin pairs of ivory wings, / That hovered high in the sky for times immemorial; bereft of life yielding fuel. Nikhil Parekh
"In order to repair the discarded aircraft; / What was required was to refuel it with gasoline / Strengthen its tapered wings." Nikhil Parekh
"The aircraft appeared astoundingly exhilarating when sighted on the Black tarmac; / With twin pairs of majestic wings projecting from its sides, Lets make it even better by inhabiting the same; / Soaring high in the sky; / Abreast the satiny clouds." Nikhil Parekh
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating. Felix Baumgartner
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. Eddie Rickenbacker
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich. Tony Fernandes
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
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude. John Travolta
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
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