American Aviator Quotes

Henry H. Arnold

Paul Tibbets

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Chuck Yeager

Eddie Rickenbacker

Jacqueline Cochran

Eddie August Schneider

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

Jacqueline Cochran

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

Eddie Rickenbacker

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Arthur W. Radford

If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.

I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night.

I was broke, hungry, jobless … yet despite the fact that all three of us are old-time aviators who did our part for the development of the industry, we were left out in the cold in the Administration's program of job making. Can you blame us for accepting the lucrative Spanish offer?

Eddie August Schneider

Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached.96 Mach. I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride. Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to.965 Mach - then tipped right off the scale... We were flying supersonic. And it was a smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade.

I remember so vividly my first time aloft that I can still hear the wind swing in the wires as we glided down. By the time the pilot touched the wheels gently to earth, I knew my future in airplanes and flying was as inevitable as the freckles on my nose.

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.

Henry H. Arnold

There was the actor who put in his will that he wanted to be cremated and ten per cent of his ashes thrown in his agent's face.

I'm going to go over and get them out of the bunker myself. If the squad opens up on them, shoot 'em.

Hugh Thompson, Jr.