The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.
Airplanes Quotes
The airport aesthetic is an extension of the in-flight aesthetic. The air is as quiet and lifeless as can be engineered. Aside from PA announcements, you hear little but real Muzak, mellow adult-contemporary music, or whooshy silence… It not only muffles the energy of all those people going all those places, it extends the airline […]
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)
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.
