You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Airplanes Quotes
The aeroplane will prevent war by making it too expensive, too slow, too difficult, too long drawn out.
That day at Kitty Hawk, we thought only of getting off the ground. Later we hoped that the airplane would be an instrument of peace, perhaps the instrument that would enforce peace.
Airplane food isn’t in a great state; so many of the airlines serve heavy, stodgy meals. Last year we opened a restaurant at Heathrow’s Terminal 5, where we offer these amazing picnics to take onboard. They’re light, easy to carry, and most importantly, absolutely delicious.
Here’s the ideal experience: that the flight attendant recognises you, but the guy sitting next to you doesn’t.
Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will never work. (Response of Cambridge aeronautical engineering professor, shown Frank Whittle’s plan for a jet engine)
I did not fully understand the dread term ‘terminal illness’ until I saw Heathrow for myself.
The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.
Without luggage or defenses, giving up my car keys and my cash, keeping only a pack of Salem cigarettes the way a child holds on to a toy. I signed myself in where a stranger puts the inked-in X’s.
It’s no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase “As pretty as an airport” appear.
