Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.
Charles LindberghIf one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.
Charles LindberghMan must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Charles Lindbergh