Air Quote by Buzz Aldrin

I kind of grew up around planes.

— Karen Pence

Growing up in the 1960s, I can't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated by airplanes and rockets.

— Leroy Chiao

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets…

— Stewart O'Nan

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

— John L. Phillips

It was like I need something else in my life, and that's when I kind of went back to my childhood interest in aviation…

— Jared Isaacman

Well, 'aerospace' was really not a name in my young life. Flying airplanes was. And I got my first try at flying - just…

— Wally Funk

I was fascinated by aeroplanes in my childhood. So, it was like I wanted to study science and then become a pilot.

— Mayank Agarwal

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

— Douglass North

'Airplane' was my favorite movie growing up.

— Harley Pasternak

I love flying planes.

— Hunter Hayes

I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But…

— Kapil Sharma

I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a…

— William A. Patterson