Air Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“Naval aviation, they believed, was not inherently dangerous. Sure, there were risks, but if you were good—really good, like they were—nothing bad would happen.”

— Robert Gandt

My favourite British line is the West Highland line. It was built across moorland where no one had succeeded in building a road. So…

— Michael Portillo

I read a book called 'Transatlantic', which is a history of the great shipping lines. Also, of course, I had read about the Titanic…

— Erik Larson

The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane,…

— Christopher Cockerell

The reason I loved working at Boeing was because I loved the idea of air travel as a way of bringing people and cultures…

— Alan Mulally

We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

— Chester W. Nimitz

“People were used to those slow human speeds on both land and sea, to those delays, those waitings on the wind or fair weather,…

— Marguerite Duras

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

I just love 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.'

— Chris McCausland

“never put all the good people in one plane, ship, train .....”

— Jay Woodman

One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and…

— Kenneth Oppel

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind…

— Richard Branson