Aviation Quotes

Two new additions, both from Flying magazine's Women and Aviation edition, Aug 1965: “Aviation is, by and large, a masculine activity, and the women who enters this arena does so at the risk of becoming a second-rate aviator or a less feminine female.” Milton W. Horowitz Psychology professor, For Men Only? “There have always been a good many reasons why women shouldn’t fly and a very few reasons why most of them don’t. The reasons are not related. The “shouldn’t reasons” are largely based on man’s shrewd insight into women’s natural shortcomings—their lack of mechanical aptitude, their emotional and irrational behavior in emergencies and their well known limitation of being able to do only one thing at a time.” Robert B. Parke Editor of Flying magazine, start of Editorial: The Femine Case, He went on to say they lean more slowly than men, but often fly by the book and take fewer risks. Oh, and they don’t go drinking and flying as much as male pilots. So there’s that. @FlyingMagazine #WomenFly @TheNinetyNines

#flying #flyingbooks “No words are adequate for this changing state of matter. Like liquids to gases or solids to liquids, from melting to freezing to vaporizing, so we soon go from Sapien to Avian.” Caroline Paul. Why Fly: Seeking Awe, Healing, and Our True Selves in the Sky, released this week, 2026.

#safety #flying #FAA ❝ We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ. We want good enough. ❞ Gregory Zerzan, US DOT General Counsel, on the use of AI to quickly draft new transport regulations. Meeting notes quoted in Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence, ProPublica news website, 26 January 2026. propublica.org/article/trump-…

RIP John Noble Wilford. The New York Times reporter gave us some of the most magical words about the Space program. Like, “Men have landed and walked on the moon. … It was man’s first landing on another world, the realization of centuries of dreams, the fulfillment of a decade of striving, a triumph of modern technology and personal courage, the most dramatic demonstration of what man can do if he applies his mind and resources with single-minded determination. … The moon, long the symbol of the impossible and the inaccessible, was now within man’s reach, the first port of call in this new age of spacefaring.” He said later, “I thought to myself, yes, this is the biggest story I will probably ever write in my career. Unless of course, I am still around reporting when people discover other life in the universe.” nytimes.com/2025/12/08/sci…

“We are on the line 157 337 wl rept msg we wl rept… “ Last received transmission from Earhart‘s plane. Recorded by Itasca, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter at 8:43 am on Jul 2, 1937. cbsnews.com/news/amelia-ea…

#UPS2976 #NTSB ❝ There are a lot of different parts of this airplane in a lot of different places. ❞ Todd Inman Member, National Transportation Safety Board, public briefing the day after the fatal UPS 2976 crash of a MD-11 taking off from the Louisville, KY, airport. AP reports, 5 November 2025.

@TabloidNewsKZN It’s a great line — but it ain’t Leonardo! airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-fa… #tastedflight #fakequote

“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo DaVinci

@Thinkwert It’s a great line — but it ain’t Leonardo! airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-fa… #tastedflight #fakequote

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci

@QuoteofdeDay It’s a great line — but it ain’t Leonardo! airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-fa… #tastedflight #fakequote

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." - Leonardo da Vinci

@CosmicAnik It’s a great line — but it ain’t Leonardo! airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-fa… #tastedflight #fakequote

"Once You, Have tasted Flight, You will forever Walk, The earth with your eyes turned Skyward" - Leonard Da Vinci✨️

@_devilsadvo It’s a great line — but it ain’t Leonardo! airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-fa… #tastedflight #fakequote

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. -Leonardo da Vinci

@Tisherenow8 It’s a great line — but it ain’t Leonardo! airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-fa… #tastedflight #fakequote

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." Leonardo da Vinci

@FrankReardon1 It’s a great line — but it ain’t Leonardo! airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-fa… #tastedflight #fakequote

“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo DaVinci

@LubethSylvia @EmocionesCan @TenerifePunto @LoqueVeoTfe It’s a great line — but it ain’t Lindbergh! airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-fa… #tastedflight #fakequote

“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward." Charles Lindbergh “Una vez que hayas probado el vuelo, caminarás por la tierra para siempre con los ojos vueltos hacia el cielo.” @EmocionesCan @TenerifePunto @LoqueVeoTfe

@resetsimulation It’s a great line — and you got the author right! Nice. airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-fa…

@FLBarbella It’s a great line — but it ain’t Leonardo! airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-fa… #tastedflight #fakequote

#digitalart Messing around with #AI via #Midjourney... “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward.” - Leonardo da Vinci

@weareDogeWorld @imper1um85 It’s a great line — but it ain’t Leonardo! airfactsjournal.com/2020/08/the-fa… #tastedflight #fakequote

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. #Ordinals #Bitcoin #DaVinci