I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.