After Quote by Stephen Rodrick

Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having…

— Gordon Bethune

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

— Ernie Pyle

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

— John Ray

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

“I had always had the oddest feeling, consider it knowledge, that if I were ever to find myself inside the cockpit of a 767…

— Augusten Burroughs

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

— Adolf Galland

I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the…

— Anonymous

We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.

— Joe Sutter

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

— Thomas John Barnardo

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized…

— Bruce Dickinson

Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.

— Tim O'Reilly