Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.

Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.