#flying

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#air #air force #experience #extension #faster

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#circumstances #confident #dire #even #ever

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#also #around #coast #cohesion #down

It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#earth #flying #how #incredible #only

I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.' ↗

— Cheryl Ladd

#anymore #ever #field #flying #forget

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. ↗

— Wilbur Wright

#believed #encouraged #fact #flying #great

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own. ↗

— Richard Bach

#airplanes #aviation #flying #pilot #art

There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny.To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints of God and demi-gods. The hardest part for man is the letting go. For some reason, he thinks himself big enough to know and to see what's good for him. But in the letting go........is found freedom. In the letting go........ is found the flight! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#destiny #flying #flying-spirit #footprints #god

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times. ↗

— Greg Egan

#been #directions #drags #fashionable #flying

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. ↗

— James Thurber

#collision #end #fast #flying #great