Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

- Alan Shepard

It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

- Adolf Galland

Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.

- Ander Crenshaw

You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.

- Baba Kalyani

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.

- Burt Rutan

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

- Howard Hughes

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

- Isoroku Yamamoto

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.

- Joe Biden

This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.

- Niki Lauda