I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. —Chuck Yeager 84 Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicab...
127. “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 Twain 128. “Before we hadairplanesand astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere ...
The Pleasure of Their Company, in Flying magazine, April 1968.See more Richard Bach aviation quotes. Airmanship is remarkable in that respect. There is something about it that shows almost immediately in the way a man behaves with airplanes; even in the way he merely talks about them at dinn...
112. “I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”― Charles Lindbergh 113. “We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.”― David Byrne 114. “Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
“No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.” –Orville Wright. “Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.” –Marshal Ferdinand Foch(Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, circa 1911) Supreme Commander of Allied forces, 1918 ...
“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.” Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895 “Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientif...
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“Logic” proved that airplanes can’t fly and that H-bombs won’t work and that stones don’t fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow. — Robert Heinlein
Winston Churchill was a British military leader and statesman. Twice named prime minister of Great Britain, he helped to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II.
about Perdido Street Station from Iron Council by China Mieville. Suggested by Nebhead 'I was walking through the roads to clear my brain,' he said. 'And suddenly fire, earthquake, death!' Curate to Narrator from The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Suggested by Dragonsworn - Do...