Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

- Felix Baumgartner

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.

- Norm Dicks

I'd manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else.

- Louis R. Chenevert

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

- Kim Novak

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

- Joseph Force Crater

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.

- Janet Napolitano

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

- John Travolta

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

- Graham Hawkes

The Greatest Living Yankee is Whitey Ford, who came out of Aviation High School, which was then in Manhattan, and helped pitch the Yankees to victory in the 1950 World Series when he was 21.

- George Vecsey

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

- Freeman Dyson

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

- Arnold Palmer

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

- Ellen Ochoa

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

- Corrine Brown

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

- Chesley Sullenberger

I was a big aviation buff as a boy.

- Brian Binnie

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

- Bruce Dickinson

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

- Bruce Dickinson

The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations.

- Anthony Albanese

I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.

- Annie Jacobsen

I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.

- Ander Crenshaw