Airplane And Aviation

(255 votes)   "Paul Cornu inspired aviators to further their interest in the science of flight"

Nate Golferston
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(339 votes)   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
1925-, American Writer, Editor

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(392 votes)   Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Proverbs

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(314 votes)   I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

George S. Kaufman
1889-1961, American Playwright, Director

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(342 votes)   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
1898-1961, American Writer

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(336 votes)   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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(322 votes)   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
Chinese Revolutionary Leader

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(330 votes)   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
1871-1948, American Inventor, Aviation Pioneer

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(437 votes)   The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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