Howard Hughes: I'm Howard Hughes, the aviator.
My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.
... afraid of everything because nothing truly terrible had happened to me, yet.
To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdom... p 364
Howard Hughes: I care very much about aviation.
Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?
Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant? p 181
Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all. p 60
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the g...
Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of aviation and about a tenth of trucking. But it's not benign, because there's so much of it. So shipping emissions are about th...
From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour. Aviators have personified national ideals, from French elan to Soviet party discipline. They've inspired lust and admiration. They've turned sunglass...
South Wales is a hub of aviation.
At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a profess...
There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos.
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
Katharine Hepburn: Let me take the wheel.
Howard Hughes: Come in with the milk. Come in with the milk. Come in with the milk.
Howard Hughes: Find me some clouds!
Ava Gardner: Get that crazy bitch away from me!
