To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

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

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

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.

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

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.