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I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

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

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

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

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit.

You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.