AIRPLANE AND AVIATION

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
Proverbs

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
Ernest Hemingway

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.
Shana Alexander

It must be that the airplane's propeller serves only to cool the pilot off... Because if you make it stop, he sure starts to sweat.
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Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
Orville Wright

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.
George S. Kaufman

"Paul Cornu inspired aviators to further their interest in the science of flight"
Nate Golferston