Across Quote by Tim O'Reilly

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but…

— Bill Bryson

“In June of 1928, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She made that flight with Wilmer Shultz and Louis…

— Anna C. Barnett

I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people…

— Josephine Baker

“Now, I’m giving up both land and day. Now, I’m heading eastward across two oceans, one of night and one of water. —CHARLES LINDBERGH”

— Dan Hampton

There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane…

— David Letterman

“Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a famous aviator of the early 20th century, who once said: He who would travel happily must travel light.”

— Michael D. Haus

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris,…

— Burt Rutan

“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

My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on…

— Buzz Aldrin

Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.

— Ansen Dibell

It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

— C. R. Smith

Back in the early '70s, there were two airlines that flew puddle jumpers from the Sarasota-Bradenton airport to Atlanta: National and Eastern, neither of…

— Craig Sager