GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Amelia Earhart

There are 33 quotes matching Amelia Earhart in the collection:

The moment I saw the planes in flight and heard the rhythmic whirr of their motors, I felt the call of the air.

Amila Earhart

Quoted in Amelia Earhart Answers the Call of Fate, Illustrated Love Magazine, January 1932.

Where am I?
In Gallegher’s pasture … have you come far?
From America.
Have you now?

Amelia Earhart

First solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic, upon arrival in an open field near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 21 May 1932. Her question was answered by Danny McCallion, a foreman working the land. This is the version in the 2009 biography by Mary LovellThe Sound of Wings: The Life of .

Another biographer, Doris Rich, tells it slightly differently in her 1989 book . Danny McCallion answers, “Sure you’re in Derry, sir.” The sir an easy mistake to make to a pilot in a plane whose face was smeared in grease.

So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

Amelia Earhart

Speech accepting the Outstanding American Woman of the year award, 14 October 1932. There was a plaque and a chamois purse with $1,000 in gold. Her comments came after an article in the French press praising her skills ended with the query:

“… but can she bake cakes?”

You don't think of yourself when you’re flying any more than you do in driving a car. You don’t ask yourself in a traffic emergency, “Is my hat on straight?” You just think, “Can I get through that hole?” It’s only the backseat drivers who have their minds on themselves … You become a part of the machine.

Amelia Earhart. Quoted in Flying Doesn’t Thrill Amelia—It’s Scenery

Milwaukee Journal newspaper, 29 October 1932.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

Amelia Earhart

Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1935.

Aviation is a science that cannot be limited to men only.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Letter to Amelia Earhart after becoming the first women to successfully fly from Hawaii to California, January 1935. Quoted in 1989 book Amelia Earhart: A Biography.

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It was a night of stars. Stars hung outside my cockpit window near enough to touch.

Amelia Earhart

Writting about flying from Hawaii to California. She was the first person to complete this flight solo. Last Flight, 1937.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince ne that the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

Amelia Earhart

Last Flight, 1937.

When I go, I’d like best to go in my plane, quickly.

Amlia Earhart

Last Flight, 1937.

I have a feeling that there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this trip is it. Anyway when I have finished this job, I mean to give up long-distance stunt flying.

Amelia Earhart

Departing from Los Angeles, California, for Florida on 21 May 1937. Start of her last flight.

We are on the line of position 157-337 … We are running north and south.

Amelia Earhart

Last received radio transmission, while searching for Howland Island, morning of 2 July 1937.

For someone who’s crazy about being in the air, dying down on the ground is something of an abdication.

Maryse Bastié

French aviator who set several international records for female aviators during the 1930s. She did die in an airplane crash, 6 July 1951. Quoted in the 2013 book Women Aviators: From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, Making History in Air and Space.

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940’s to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, ‘Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.’

Col. Eileen Collins USAF

Television interview 100 Years of Great women, on ABC with Barbara Walters, 30 April 1999.

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