GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Louise Thaden

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Men do not believe us capable. We can fly—you know that. Ever since we started we’ve batted our heads against a stone wall. Manufacturers refuse us planes. The public have no confidence in our ability. If we had access to the equipment and training men have, we could certainly do as well. Thank heaven, we continue willingly fighting a losing battle. …

But if enough of us keep trying, we’ll get someplace.

Amelia Earhart

Quoted in Louise Thaden’s 1938 book High, Wide and Frightened.

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There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots.

Louise Thaden

High, Wide, and Frightened, 1938.

Flying is the only real freedom we are privileged to possess.

Louise Thaden

1938. Quoted in 2018 book Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females.

To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration — she cannot be a simple, natural personality.

Louise Thaden

First woman to win the Bendix Transcontinental Air Race, High, Wide, and Frightened, 1938.

If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.

Louise Thaden

First woman to win the Bendix trophy. Preface to High, Wide, and Frightened, 1938.

If your time has come to go, it is a glorious way in which to pass over. Smell of burning oil, the feel of strength and power beneath your hands. So quick has been the transition from life to death there must still linger in your mind's eye the everlasting beauty and joy of flight … Women pilots were blazing a new trail. Each pioneering effort must bow to death. There has never been nor will there ever be progress without sacrifice of human life.

Louise Thaden

Explaining her thoughts about the death of Marvel Crosson in the first National Women’s Air Derby. High, Wide and Frightened, 1938.

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I’m afraid, lying.

Louise Thaden

First sentence of the foreward to her book High Wide, and Frightened, 1938.

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