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Aviation Quotes: Charles Lindbergh

Filed in archive Aviation Quotes by Terah Shelton on August 9, 2007

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 A. Lindbergh, 'The Spirit of St. Louis,' 1953.

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