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Everybody is making such a big thing of it but I don’t see what difference sex makes. There have been doctors and lawyers and engineers for years who are women. And a modern aircraft is built so simply that a child could fly it.

Turi Widerøe

Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), first woman to fly for a Western airline. She joined in 1968, completed training and first flew in scheduled service on 30 April 1969. Quoted in Orlando Sentinel newspaper story 22 February 1970.

The New York Times reported she was a “svelte blonde” and included her physical dimensions in their description, “… who has the height (just under 6 feet), the cheekbones and the long, shapely legs of a fashion model … her shapely statistics only in centimeters (98–68–100, which translates out to about 38½–26½–39).” Svelte Blonde Is a Commercial Pilot, Judy Klemesrud, The New York Times, 16 February 1970.

This is all about fun. You can grab ahold of an airplane here, and literally take your life in both hands. One for the throttle and one for the stick, and you can control your own destiny, free of most rules and regulations. It may not be better than sex, but it's definitely better than the second time. Adrenaline is a narcotic; it may be a naturally induced narcotic, but it is a narcotic. And once you get it movin' around in there, it's a rush like none other.

Attributed to Alan Preston

Air race pilot.

Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills.

Pancho Barnes

Pioneer aviator, founder of the first movie stunt pilots' union, and owner of The Happy Bottom Riding Club. Quoted in 2009 documentary The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club.



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I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

Chief military engineer to the Emperor Vespasian, c. AD 70. Quoted in the 2013 book Military Quotations: Insightful Words from History's Greatest Leaders.

I don't give a shit if no one likes me. I’m not a cloud bunny or an aerosexual. I don't like aeroplanes. I never wanted to be a pilot like those other platoons of goons who populate the airline industry.

Michael O’Leary

Ryanair CEO. Quoted in Michael O'Leary’s 33 Daftest quotes, The Guardian newspaper, 8 November 2013.



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Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls).

Kingsley Amis

Everyday Drinking – The Distilled . 2008

The pilots life is founded on three things: sex, seniority, and salary, in that order.

Dr. Ludwig Ledere

Corporate physician, American Airlines. The line is sourced to him in Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos, 1995. However, the phrase was used in a 1950 article in ALPA’s magazine The Air Line Pilot.

They tout The Joy of Sex, but it don’t last like The Fun of Flying.

Spoken by Lucille Benson

In the 1976 movie Silver Streak

Landing on the ship during the daytime is like sex, it’s either good or it’s great. Landing on the ship at night is like a trip to the dentist, you may get away with no pain, but you just don’t feel comfortable.

LCDR Thomas Quinn, USN

Remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous?

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Renting airplanes is like renting sex: It's difficult to arrange on short notice on a Saturday, the fun things always cost more, and someone’s always looking at their watch.

Cliché

Regarding aerobatics: It’s like having sex and being in a car wreck at the same time.

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Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them. You should have a couple of lovers make a midnight assignation upon the top of the monument, and see the cupola of St. Paul’s covered with both sexes like the outside of a pigeon-house. Nothing would he more frequent than to see a beau flying in at a garret window, or a gallant giving chase to his mistress, like a hawk after a lark. The poor husband could not dream what was doing over his head. If he were jealous, indeed, he might clip his wife’s wings, but what would this avail when there were flocks of whore-masters perpetually hovering over his house?

Joseph Adoison

The Guardian, 20 July 1713.

If the feminine is considered the weaker sex and this weaker sex accomplishes the art of flying, it is positive proof of the simplicity and universal practicality of individual flying. It is the greatest sales argument that can be presented to that public upon which this industry depends for its existence.

Frank Copeland

Marketing Director, National Women’s Air Derby, an early air race. The Women’s Air Derby and Why, Aeronautics magazine, May 1930.

Women are seeking freedom. Freedom in the skies! They are soaring above temperamental tendencies of their sex which have kept them earth-bound. Flying is a symbol of freedom from limitation.

Margery Brown

Flying is Changing Women. Pictorial Review magazine, June 1930.

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Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes … Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs ‘Girls don’t’ and ‘Girls can’t’ which mark their paths… Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects. For example, those courses which involve mechanical work may have to be explained somewhat differently to girls not because girls are inherently not mechanical, but because normally they have learned little about such things in the course of their education.

Amelia Earhart

The Fun of It, 1932.

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But why do so many people dream of being able to fly? The answer that psycho-analysis gives is that to fly or to be a bird is only a disguise for another wish, and that more than one bridge, involving words or things, leads us to recognize what it is When we consider that inquisitive children are told that babies are brought by a large bird, such as the stork; when we find that the ancients represented the phallus as having wings; that the commonest expression in German for male sexual activity is vögeln [‘to bird’: Volgel is the German for ‘bird’]; that the male organ is actually called l’ucello [the bird] in Italian — all of these are only small fragments from a whole mass of connected ideas, from which we learn that in dreams the wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than the longing to be capable of sexual performance.

Sigmund Freud

Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood, Alan Tyson translation, 1964. Published in 1910 as Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci.

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

Erica Jong

Fear of Flying, 1973.

Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy.

Alfred Kahn

Often called the father of airline deregulation. Quoted in World Airline Cooperation Review, International Air Transport Association, Public Information Department, 1975.

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Moving up to the F-14 Tomcat meant crossing the magic line that separates the men from the boys, like first-time sex, glorious and terrifying.

Ehud Yonay

Top Guns: At Mach 2 and 40,000 feet over California, it’s always High Noon, California magazine, May 1983. The article that inspired the movie Top Gun.

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