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There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
Wendell Willkie
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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
Wendell Willkie
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If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
Jimmy Doolittle
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The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.
Werner Molders
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wernher von Braun
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Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.
Cecil Day-Lewis
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Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.
Alfred Kahn
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
Alexander Pope
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Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.
Alexander P. de Seversky
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A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.
William Bushnell Stout
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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
Alexander Graham Bell
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It's a great day for TWA.
William Compton
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How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility and hate? How can this fabulous new force in the sky fail to serve the hope of teh world and the peace of the world?
Juan Trippe
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As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.
Isaac Asimov
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Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger very high, as a sign of absolute conviction and I refused with energy to pay the forfeit. The more they laughed at me, the happier I was, hoping that some day the laugh would be on my side.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
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To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
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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 Langewiesche
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The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.
William Langewiesche
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If you don't like what you see, stop looking.
Nancy Lopez
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Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.
Harriet Quimby
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Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.
William P. Driscoll
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Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
Russell Baker
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