"Keep the aeroplane in such an attitude that the air pressure is directly in the pilot's face."
 - Horatio C. Barber, 1916

"When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten."
 - Robert Livingston, "Flying The Aeronca"

"The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire."
 - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, sometime before his death in the 1920's

"Flexible is much too rigid, in aviation you have to be fluid."
 - Verne Jobst

"If you can't afford to do something right, then be darn sure you can afford to do it wrong."
 - Charlie Nelson

"Just remember, if you crash because of weather your funeral will be held on a sunny day."
 - Layton A. Bennett

"I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night."
 - Charles A. Lindbergh, to Wiley Post, 1931

"Never fly the 'A' model of anything."
 - Ed Thompson

"Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder pedals."
 - Harry Bill

"Keep thy airspeed up, lest the earth come from below and smite thee."
 - William Kershner

"When a prang seems inevitable, endeavour to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible."
 - advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II.

"Instrument flying is when your mind gets a grip on the fact that there is vision beyond sight."
 - U.S. Navy "Approach" magazine circa W.W.II.

"Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket."
 - Bevo Howard

"The Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you."
 - attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot

"A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum."
 - Jon McBride, astronaut

"If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible."
 - Bob Hoover

"It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors."
 - Richard Leakey, after engine failure in a single engine, Nairobi, Africa, 1993.

"If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it. Ride the bastard down."
 - Ernest K. Gann, advice from the "Old Pelican"

"Though I Fly Through The Valley Of Death I Shall Fear No Evil, For I Am At 80,000 feet And Climbing."
 - sign over the entrance to the SR-71 operating location on Kadena AB, Okinawa

"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3."
 - Paul F. Crickmore

"The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you."
 - Ernest K. Gann, advice from the "Old Pelican"

"If you want to grow old as a pilot you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off."
 - Chuck Yeager

"Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you."
 - Richard Herman Jr, in "Firebreak"

"There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime."
 - Sign over Squadron Ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970.

"An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one."
 - Len Morgan

"To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home."
 - author unkown

"Life is simple. Eat, Sleep, Fly."
 - heard at the Coloma LZ