The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.

- Great Aviation Quotes

In thrust I trust.

- Great Aviation Quotes

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers." Actually, it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

- George Orwell

Everyone knows the definition of a "good landing" is one you can walk from, but very few know the definition of a "great landing." It's one after which you can use the airplane another time.

- Unknown

Gravity always wins.

- Unknown

If you're ever faced with a forced landing at night, turn on the landing lights to see the landing area. If you don't like what you see, turn them back off.

- Unknown

For years politicians have promised the moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

- Richard Nixon, 1969

Try to keep the number of your landings equal to the number of your takeoffs.

- Unknown

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

- Bob Hoover

I remember a time when sex was safe and flying was dangerous.

- Unknown

The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.

- Orville Wright

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds, toward heaven that is by letter written with their quills.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

The Antonov-225, the world's largest aircraft, first flew on 21 December, 1988.

The MiG-25 (NATO reporting name Foxbat) was an interceptor produced by the Soviet Union's Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the 1960s

The first time an F-16A took off was in December 1976; the first aircraft was delivered to the US Air Force in January 1979

The 747 flies at high-subsonic speeds (typically 0.85 Mach or 565 mph or 909 km/h) and features intercontinental range (8,430 statute miles, or 13,570 km, for the 747-400 version

The Boeing 747, also popularly known as the jumbo jet, is the second largest passenger airliner after Airbus A380, but it remains the largest aircraft in commercial service.

The 737 family has won orders for more than 5,200 airplanes, which is more airplanes than The Boeing Company's biggest competitor has won for its entire product line since it began business.