The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.
I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.
Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?
The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.
I wanted to fly when I was little. I still want to fly.
My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.
