If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore? – Graham Hawkes
I’m not an aviation historian, I’m not an Air Force aficionado, and I’m definitely not a ufologist. I’m not someone who studies UFOs. – Annie Jacobsen
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation. – Chesley Sullenberger
Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies and other businesses a method of hedging against adverse price changes. Instead, they’ve become just another Wall Street plaything. – Gary Weiss
Aviation – and space travel, in particular – have always been especially captivating. – Felix Baumgartner
More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999. – Norm Dicks
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive. – Corrine Brown
Non-commercial general aviation flights serve as a lifeline to thousands of communities where airlines do not fly, while contributing a fraction of total U.S. air traffic congestion. – Mike Pompeo
I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here. – Kim Novak
I’d manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else. – Louis R. Chenevert
I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights. – Joseph Force Crater
Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of aviation and about a tenth of trucking. But it’s not benign, because there’s so much of it. So shipping emissions are about three to four percent, almost the same as aviation’s. – Rose George
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour. – Steve Fossett
In the U.S., the term ‘general aviation’ means its exact opposite, the way ‘public school’ does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public. – Tom Wolfe