Air Quote by Ted Olson

The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash.…

— Robert Crippen

“literally rocketing into the sky at a seemingly impossible steep pitch as it activated for the first and only time in its history a…

— Garrett M. Graff

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want…

— Barney Ross

The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.

— Pete Conrad

But anyway, I was convinced that it would go away, you know. But the idea was that he was sitting on a flight -…

— Nick Lowe

It Was Never Planed...

— Crystal

We turned our planes around after landing and got them off again in 20 minutes back in the early days; 15 minutes in many…

— Herb Kelleher

“could go wrong on the way did—the plane was delayed”

— Manu S. Pillai

I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.

— Harvey Korman

A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money,

— Robert Crandall

“At seven p.m., hope is sparked again when some new chirpy airline employee announces that a new plane without that nasty mechanical problem -…

— Lewis Black

And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the…

— Reba McEntire