Snap Roll Quiz Time: Pioneers of Aviation

1. “I fly because it releases me from the tyranny of petty things.”

Chuck Yeager
Antoine de-Saint Exupéry
Will Rogers

2. "Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards."

Leonardo da Vinci
Felix Baumgartner
Will Rogers

3. "If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you can use the aircraft the next day, it's an outstanding landing."

Chuck Yeager
Eddie Rickenbacker
Jeff Skiles

4. "More than anything else, the sensation of flying is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost. If you can conceive of such a combination."

Neil Armstrong
Wilbur Wright
Jimmie Doolittle

5. “I’m in love with something beautiful; some call it aviation.”

Alan Shepard
Ernest Gann
Wolfgang Langewiesche

6. “Aviation is proof that given that given the will we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.”

Admiral Byrd
Eddie Rickenbacker
Samuel P. Langley

7. “Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time; it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.”

Leonardo da Vinci
Charles Lindbergh
Robert Goddard

8. “No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.”

Orville Wright
Otto Lilienthal
Larry Walters

9. “If an airplane is still in one piece, don’t cheat on it; ride the bastard down.”

Boris Popov
Ernest Gann
Felix Baumgartner

10. “The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.”

Daniel Bernoulli
Richard Bach
Chuck Yeager

11. “Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.”

Stephen Coonts
Otto Lilienthal
Chesley Sullenberger

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