To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It you can't fix it, don't worry about it; accept it and do the best you can.

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.