20th century Quote by Amitava Kumar

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the…

— Bruce Schneier

I think The 1975 getting on a commercial plane to go to a country to try and spread a positive message is not going…

— Matty Healy

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has…

— Charles Lindbergh

I feel we are going to enter an era comparable in its progress to that in which the airplane advanced... Its just a matter…

— Dr Robert H Goddard

Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed. It's pretty…

— Dallas Campbell

9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11 era" and…

— Porochista Khakpour

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

— Bertrand Piccard

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

— Stephen Ambrose

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

— Wilson Greatbatch

The never-ending flight Of future days.

— John Milton

Flights' grew out of a time when I was travelling a lot.

— Olga Tokarczuk

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and…

— Virginia Postrel