Above The Clouds Quotes

If God had meant for man to fly, he would never have given us the steam railway locomotive.
Someone's late great aunt

If an airplane is still one piece, don't cheat on it. Ride the bastard down.
Ernest K. Gann

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

Remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous?

Work hard, fly hard, play hard and stay hard.

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

They shall mount up on wings as eagles.
Isaiah 31

An airplane flies because of a principle discovered by Bernoulli, not Marconi.

An airplane might disappoint any pilot, but it'll never surprise a good one.
Ron Morgan

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky, behind me and before me is God, and I have no fears.
Helen Keller, at age 74, on flight around the world

Lady, you want me to answer you if this old airplane is safe to fly?
Just how in the world do you think it got to be this old?
Jim Tavenner

Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time wasn't worth noting.
Michael Rarfil

Instrument flying is an unnatural act, probably punishable by God.
Gordon Baxter

He rode upon a cherub, and did fly, yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Psalms 18, circa 150 B.C.

When I'm up in the air, it's like I'm closer to Heaven. I can't explain the feeling.
Jeffrey Gagliano

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -
voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., regards the Apollo launches.

Fly it until the last piece stops moving.

A man can criticize a pilot for flying into a mountainside in fog,but I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed....
Is there a better way to die?
Charles A. Lindbergh

Keep thy airspeed up,
lest the earth come from below and smite thee.
William Kershner

I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of the hanger and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, until I'm just soul on a sunbeam.
Richard Bach. Daisy is Richard's Cessna.

The man who flies an airplane must believe in the unseen.
Richard Bach

Eagles may soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet air intakes.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.
Cecil Beaton, regards an Egyptian sunset

Truly superior pilots are those who use their superior judgment to avoid those situations where they might have to use their superior skills.

It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!
Stephen Coonts

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