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More Airplane Quotes

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• In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. — Robert Benchley
• I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or… — Gordon Bethune
• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know. — Barbara Bush
• Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these… — Nolan Bushnell
• I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.… — Michael P. Anderson
• Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful.… — Charles Schumer
• Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its… — Wernher von Braun
• I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. — George Cayley
• Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be… — Octave Chanute
• Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away… — Unknown Author
• To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. — Otto Lilienthal
• MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever… — Ernest K. Gann

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