Fanatic Quote by Gus Grissom

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term,

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I was way into space and planes. I had loads of model planes and rockets.

— Rich Fulcher

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew…

— Graham Hawkes

I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a…

— Burt Rutan

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

— Douglass North

I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time.

— Connie Kalitta

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes.…

— Buzz Aldrin

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

My career has been spent developing airplanes.

— Alan Mulally

No. I just wanted to fly airplanes.

— Jackie Parker

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

— John L. Phillips

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the…

— Alan Shepard