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Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

I love flying planes.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.

I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.

When I started flying, I realized how enjoyable it was, and flying became my main focus while engineering went on the back burner.