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“The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.”

Men Action Force Wind Demand Concepts Horse Moved Distance Affair Speed Aviation Sail Adaptability Premium Quickness Concept Of Time Time And Distance

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!”

Source: Small world: an academic romance

“It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.”

Ifs Men Heart Loses Emotion Performances Horse Appearance Lovely Flight Fighter Planes Faithful Characteristics Aviation Airplane Virginity One You Love

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.”

Men Dream Magic Mankind Approach Horse Instruments Ancient Flying Flight Fulfillment Aviation Carpet Helicopters Versatile

Author:Igor Sikorsky

“The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.”

Particular Horse Aviation Friendly Aeroplanes Air Power Airpower Not Friends Cavalry

Book:The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...

Source: The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...

“To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.”

Use Air Achieve Arms Horse Fighter Aviation Superiority Inadequate Carts Bombers Air Power Airpower

Book:The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

Source: The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

“You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.”

Ifs Horse Lovely Aviation Airplane

Book:By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.”

Men Ordinary Lonely Horse Consumers Useless Aviation Priests Airplane Marble Trainers Sculptors Hamburgers Ordinary Man

Book:Flying: The Aviation Trilogy

Source: Flying: The Aviation Trilogy