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Quotations on flying, airplanes, and being a pilot. 🦅 ✈️ 👨🏼‍✈️ Lovingly complied by aviation nerd bon vivant Dave English. On the web since 1996: www.AviationQuotations.com

F-22 in flight
UPS 2976 crash
“When you die and Saint Peter says to you, ‘Hey, when were you happiest down there?’ You're gonna say: Well, it was okay the day I got married, and I didn't much mind the day I first fell in love. But seeing the sky with the Great Waldo Pepper, that beats 'em all.” RIP Robert Redford, here playing the Great Waldo Pepper. Screenplay by George Roy Hill and William Goldman. Quote is just three minutes into the 1975 movie, as a crowd gathers after his landing. Asked by a nervious potential passenger, “what if I don't like it?” Waldo says well then, the second ride is free.
NC-4 US Navy flying boat
C R Smith letter to FAA about age 60. #FAA #age65 #retirement
Boeing test pilot text message “Piss poor design"
Calvin and Hobbes cartoon by Bill Watterson, first published this day 24 April 1988.
Concorde 002 first flight
AA MD-11 in flight
Book cover “The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”
Sir Adam Thomson Founder and chairman of British Caledonian Airways, the largest independent UK airline until it was taken over by its arch-rival, British Airways, in 1988. Quoted in The State of Britian’s Airways, The Illustrated London News, 1 April 1983. Painting is from 1986, Hangar 3 at Gatwick, by John Wonnacott, now in the National Galleries Scotland. #airline #BritishAirways #recession
Amelia Earhart sitting on a plane #flying #beauty
“It was wonderful. I’m a new man. I go home exhilarated.” President George Bush After skydiving from 12,500 feet at age 72. He pulled the rip cord at 4,500 feet and floated down to a soft landing. Yuma, Arizona, 25 March 1997. He jumped with eight Army parachutists, but for the first time since 1980 he didn’t have the secret service at his side. They were 'pacing nerviously' on the ground. Quoted in multiple press reports, including front page of The New York Times, 26 March 1997. Bush’s first jump was 2 September 1944, when he was a Navy pilot forced to leave his burning aircraft over Japanese-held Chichi island. He later made tandam jumps until he was 90 years-old.
F-35
Jetblue president on COVID
Lonely imge above the clouds
Georgia O'Keeffe's "Sky Above Clouds IV" at the Art Institute of Chicago
Theresa Claiborne, retirement flight from United Airlines.
“Unfortunate rock formation.” Not Earhart’s plane.
100% fake drawing of Leonardo da Vinci with flying goggles. Generated by AI.
“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.”