Some thoughts on flying
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
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, 127 victories WWII.
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
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
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, “Man, you made a big mistake.”— Charles ‘Chuck’ Yeager, regards his first flight.
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, 2001
Up in the sky, look! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!— The Narrator, in the 1942 movie ‘Superman’.1941
Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.— Batman costume warning label, Wal-Mart, 1995
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. – Jean Kerr
If God had really intended us to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport. –George Winters
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