Quotable Flyer

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." -Antoine de Saint-ExupÉry "Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future." -Amelia Earhart "Aviation is proof, that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible." -Captain Eddie Rickenbacker "It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!" -Stephen Coonts "Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground, and miss." -Douglas Adams The Quotable Flyer brings together hundreds of exciting, stirring, and occasionally hilarious quotations that capture the incomparable experience of flight. Covering the entire history of flight from the Wright brothers at the beginning of the twentieth century to the era of space exploration, The Quotable Flyer features dozens of gems that give expression to the highs and lows of air and space travel and run the gamut from the wonder and danger of air exploration and air combat to the mundane travails of modern commercial flight. The quotations come from all corners-from Air Force aces and astronauts to famous writers, statesmen, and humorists: Charles A. Lindbergh, Richard Bach, Antoine de Saint-ExupÉry, Wilbur Wright, Nevil Shute, T. E. Lawrence Amelia Earhart, Tom Wolfe, Ernest K. Gann, Neil Armstrong, Ernest Hemingway, General Charles (Chuck) Yeager, John Glenn, and many more. (5 3/4 x 6 3/4, 224 pages) Christopher Caswell has been an aviation and boating enthusiast for more than thirty years. He was the senior editor of Yachting magazine for ten years, the editor of Sea magazine for seven years, and writes regularly for major boating and aviation publications. He is the author of five other books, including The Quotable Sailor, Smarter Charters, Megayachts 2000, and The Illustrated Book of Basic Boating.Caswell, Christopher is the author of 'Quotable Flyer' with ISBN 9781585746576 and ISBN 1585746576.