I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.

Without work men are utterly undone

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.