Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"
I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.
That's what we're trained to do.
Go in quickly - Punch Hard - Get out!
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.
This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.
In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.
I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.
I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.
Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.
Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.
The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.