Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.
In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.
It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!
Always carry through an attack when you have started it.
Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.
Go in quickly - Punch Hard - Get out!
It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle.
Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.
How could they possibly be Japanese planes?
You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying.
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality. . . Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth. . . Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.
It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.
This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.
He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.
In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
To the aircraft I aim, not the man.
High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.