There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings.
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.
If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as copilot is a copilot who once was a captain.
Airspeed, altitude, and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? — it is the same the angels breathe.
I would like to die in my sleep like my father did, not in screaming terror, like his passengers.