“This is real and it’s just as bad as we thought it was going to be.”
— AOPA President Phil Boyer on the recently released federal budget, which calls for user fees and increased fuel taxes
“It is an ironic twist that while DOT Secretary (Mary) Peters said the budget proposal will help get our freedom back in the nation’s transportation infrastructure, it severely threatens the freedom of our country’s general aviation community.”
— Doug Macnair, EAA vp of government relations
“If it went any faster, it’d be a federal offense.”
— Sign at the IndUS Aviation exhibit at the Sport Pilot Expo touting the upcoming LoPresti modifications on the T211 Thorpedo
“There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!”
— Roscoe Turner, barnstormer and Hollywood stunt pilot
“You put a kid in an airplane and everything changes.”
— Alabama pilot Lantz Pohlman, who has given hundreds of kids their first flights