Air travel Quote by Dave Barry

It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine…

— George Will

“the captain decided to hoist sail and move a little westward, on the chance that the fog was hugging the coast of the Island.…

— Jack L. Chalker

“French coast to alert them to forecasts of clear weather over England. In the days before radar, notice of a clear night for flying…

— Helen Bryan

I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against them, charge…

— Charles Rumney Samson

We can't take aExplainn airplane. Where we're going is way too high. Going where the day sky turns into night. I got the windows…

— Justin Timberlake

Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven hundred miles…

— Percy Knauth

It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a…

— Herman Melville

“Now, I’m giving up both land and day. Now, I’m heading eastward across two oceans, one of night and one of water. —CHARLES LINDBERGH”

— Dan Hampton

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage…

— William Bligh

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances…

— Walter Cunningham

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

— George Canning

The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside…

— P. J. O'Rourke