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“Don't let the fear of falling keep you from knowing the joy of flight.”

--- Lane Wallace, “Flying Magazine.”

“Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.”

--- Neil Armstrong

“Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!”

--- Author Unknown

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things …

--- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The butterfly is a flying flower…”

--- Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

“The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.”

--- Louie Schwartzberg.

See Louis Schwartzberg’s video of millions of monarch butterflies in flight.

“Hope is a thing with feathers.”

--- Emily Dickinson

--- Frida Kahlo

“Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.”

--- Socrates

“If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?”  

--- E.Y. Harburg

Read more about Beautiful Flights in Beauty From a Drones-Eye View, Beautiful Feathers Make Beautiful Flights Happen, Flights of Fancy Fantasy Trip for Foodies Now, Crazy Beautiful Flights Now and Beautiful Sights Via Satellite Flights Now.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Nicolas Raymond. “Vibrant Hot Air Balloons.”
2. Image: by Andy Leonard. “Old Warden.”
3. Image: by Joanne. “Dragonfly.”
4. Image: by Chandima. “Flying Free.”
5. Image: by John Flannery. “Pipevine Swallowtail.”
6. Image: Courtesy of Disney Nature. “Wings of Life”
7. Image: by Adventures of KM&G-Morris. “Flight.”
8. Image: by Stuart Williams. “Taking Flight. The Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) is a Medium-sized Gull.”
9. Image: Courtesy of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. “4,864 Orbits Around Earth.”
10. Image: by DaiLuo. “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
11. Image: by iñigo. “Flying Me.”
12. Image: Courtesy of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. “Last Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis.”
13. Image: by BN App - Download now!
14. Image: by Simon Roberts. “Flight."