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There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

I regret I didn't ever learn how to fly a plane. I had the opportunity when I started to make some money, and I regret I didn't really take the time out and put the effort in and do that.

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

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

Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.

Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, 'There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.'

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.