Alan Shepard Quotes

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.

I believe that simple flight at least is possible to man and that the experiments and investigations of a large number of independent workers will result in the accumulation of information, knowledge, and skill which will finally lead to accomplished flight.

Anything that has to do with air travel and air tragedy is of interest to me.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!

Connor Broekhart was born to fly, or more accurately he was born flying.

Mother, I want to see him fly!

People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.

The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.

I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.