"Spanish Civil War Participants with German Surnames"

“We were given nothing but unarmed sports planes with which to fight, while Russian pilots were assigned regular American army planes.”

“Father was against my flying, but he's convinced now. In fact he's helping to back all my flights. All I want to do is fly.”

“I was broke, hungry, jobless … yet despite the fact that all three of us are old-time aviators who did our part for the development of the industry, we were left out in the cold in the Administration’s program of job making. Can you blame us for accepting the lucrative Spanish offer?”

“Hey, I want to know for sure before I cut off my motor. Is this the Los Angeles Municipal airport?”

“We named the ship the Kangaroo, because we hoped I could get to California in a couple of jumps.”

“I recently flew more than twelve thousand miles in a little over a month, through rain, fog, wind and snow, over mountains, cities and deserts, in a three-year-old, second-hand airplane that had already traveled some five hundred thousand miles. During that time I never was very late for an appointment or put a single scratch on myself. And considering that I am hardly an expert pilot at nineteen years of age, I knew that these statements must prove something about modern commercial aviation.”