The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!

Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.