Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.

The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.

The key to success, is to think things through and then follow through.

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly through the clean air, watching the earth below.

Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space.