"It's all right if your automobile goes wrong……" — Katherine Stinson
"It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But if your airplane breaks down, you can't sit on a convenient cloud and tinker with that!"
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Katherine Stinson
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