#airplane

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#different #events #fly #helicopters #incompetent

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#am #backpack #bed #being #bus

If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#always #comes #comfort #film #guarantee

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#architecture #capital #car #developed #extended

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s. ↗

— Douglass North

#during #fly #had #i #learned

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#built #came #descendants #havana #here

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#alike #away #successful #them #walk

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own. ↗

— Richard Bach

#airplanes #aviation #flying #pilot #art

Who else had ever met the business-end of a bolt of lightning in mid-flight, as he had just now, flying blind through a storm, lost a wing, managed to come down still alive even if it is on a wooded mountainside, to cut the contact at the moment of crashing so that he wasn't roasted alive, and crawl out with just a wrenched shoulder and a lot of cuts and bruises? He couldn't bail out because he was flying too low, hoping for a break through the clouds through which to spot something flat enough to come down on; he doesn't like bailing out anyway, hates to throw away a good plane. ("Jane Brown's Body") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#crash #pilot #plane #business

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, I find...... a perfect paper airplane. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#death #ending #kiss #paper #death