A lot of people think terrorism is flying airplanes into buildings. It could be dropping a foreign disease into cattle.

Just like when early airplanes were flying in 1910, we didn't know what the benefits are, but we were doing it because it was fun.

They did the whole Derrick Thomas tribute and had the airplanes flying over the stadium,

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

Going down feels like one of those dreams [where you think] you're flying. Your heart's beating fast, you're accelerating around the corner, you swing, and then it's like you're Superman.