“Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, an...” — Cory Lidle Quote

“Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.”

“You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.”

“If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.”

“Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.”

“It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.”

“The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.”