The Magic of Flying

By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste; he's a god of the earth, like one of the Grecian deities.

— Charles A. Lindbergh'

Flying -The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus.

— Louis Bleriot

My soul is in the sky.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Amelia Earhart

More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination.

— Wilbur Wright

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

— Orville Wright'

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

— Richard Bach

The fascination of flight can't be expressed with words. But it really lies beyond the capabilities of human endeavor. Once you've experienced it, you'll never be able to forget it.

— Friedrich Oblessor

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

—   Nevil Shute

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace.

— Amelia Earhart

The airplane is unveiling for us the true face of the earth.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.

— Welch Pogue

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, CEO, Microsoft Corporation.

Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about a pilot that drives people crazy.

— Alfred Kahn'

As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!

— Amelia Earhart, after her first flight in an airplane, a ten minute sight-seeing trip over Los Angeles, 1920.

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

— Otto Lilienthal

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

— Igor Sikorsky

The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.

— Sir Walter Raleigh

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

— William Langewische

Problems look mighty small from the sky.

— Roger B. Chaffee.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

— Quintus Ennius

There is no flying without wings.

— French proverb

To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.

— anon.

When I'm up in the air, it's like I'm closer to heaven; I can't explain the feeling.

— First Officer Jeffrey Gagliano, who died on AA 4184.

To fly is to hold God's hand.

— Daniel C. Hawkins

They shall mount up with wings as eagles.

— Isaiah 40:31.

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.

— Cecil Day Lewis