Books Quote by Randall Munroe

“Even NASA’s most respected engineers have admitted to me, in private, that designing and building a supersonic airliner was a greater technological challenge than…

— Jeremy Clarkson

I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

— Will Arnett

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

— James Gleick

As astronauts know better than anyone else, risks, incidents, and mishaps are inevitable in the development of any high-performance vehicle. The emergence of supersonic…

— Leroy Chiao

The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.

— Chuck Yeager

MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could…

— Ernest K. Gann

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

— James Nicoll

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

— Octave Chanute

“Or did a Martian sit within each, ruling, directing, using, much as a man's brain sits and rules in his body? I began to…

— H.G. Wells

I love flying planes.

— Hunter Hayes

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

— Margaret Atwood