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This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

Steve Fossett

American businessman, record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

Corrine Brown

American politician (born 1946)

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

Joseph Force Crater

Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

Kim Novak

American actress

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

Janet Napolitano

American politician, lawyer, and academic administrator (born 1957)

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.

Norm Dicks

United States Representative

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

Mary Garden

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you’re going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

Michael P. Anderson

astronaut, scientist (1959-2003)

You can’t imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

Janet Napolitano

American politician, lawyer, and academic administrator (born 1957)

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

Eddie Rickenbacker

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

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