Designing an airplane and modeling it after an ostrich is a stretch, but I’ve always been flexible.

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

It takes will power and nerve to hold the stick that way, to keep his eyes open and watch the rocky face of the cliff, pine-bearded, rush up at them. O’Shaughnessy’s mouth flattens, his face...

I like my airplane. It’s as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.

The best way to sell a car is to first try to sell them an airplane, then a horse, and then finally bring up the newest model automobile you have for sale.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it’s true, I really did. I shall have failed, that’s all. Adventures bore me. I have no idea how to talk about countries, how to make people...

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

I watched the shadow of our plane hastening below us across hedges and fences, rows of poplars and canals … Nowhere, however, was a single human being to be seen. No matter whether one is...

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn’t a slouch.

Perhaps, mites in airplane is just like human on planet.

A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child’s kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. “Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us.” We move closer, and when I reached for...

It depends if I get the window seat.

The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that they’re soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Love is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. But there’s no need to be frightened, because that plane is still on the ground.

We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.