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The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can…

— Fred Thompson

I never understood why they have life jackets under our seats on planes instead of parachutes...

— Anonymous

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

— Honore de Balzac

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great…

— Hugh Shelton

The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much…

— Dave Reichert

“American airmen, when they got to the front, mostly flew in borrowed, patched-up planes provided by the Allies, leaving them in the position of…

— Bill Bryson

“They flew up to 140 varieties of aircraft straight out of the factories and delivered them directly into the hands of us excitable young…

— M.J. Foreman

When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane,…

— Leigh Newman

“The safety gap is so large, in fact, that planes would still be safer than cars even if the threat of terrorism were unimaginably…

— Daniel Gardner

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

— Adolf Galland

I'm telling you, just attach a big parachute TO THE PLANE ITSELF! Is anyone listening to me?!

— Jack Handey

“literally rocketing into the sky at a seemingly impossible steep pitch as it activated for the first and only time in its history a…

— Garrett M. Graff