I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of… I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society. (1896)
Airplanes Quotes
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane; either you have diarrhea, or you’re anxious to meet people who do.
The Federal Aviation Administration has come up with a list of 30 changes to make air travel safer. No. 1 on the list: no more crashes.
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours – one hour for flying, and the other to get to the airport.
You always write it’s bombing, bombing, bombing. It’s not bombing, it’s air support. (, complaining to reporters about their coverage of the Vietnam War.)
I did not fully understand the dread term ‘terminal illness’ until I saw Heathrow for myself.
The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.
Without luggage or defenses, giving up my car keys and my cash, keeping only a pack of Salem cigarettes the way a child holds on to a toy. I signed myself in where a stranger puts the inked-in X’s.
It’s no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase “As pretty as an airport” appear.
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?
