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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

I've had a number of near misses during my travels that in retrospect seem of greater concern than they did at the time. I guess that is what happens with age.

For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.