You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

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.

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.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

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