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By General Aviation News Staff · August 24, 2007 ·

“We’re making it personal. The Cessna SkyCatcher — that’s what ‘it’ is and that is what it does.”

— Jack Pelton, Cessna president and CEO

“We did it again.”
— Vern Raburn, president and CEO of Eclipse Aviation, when introducing the Eclipse Concept jet

“We need to make flying easier.”
— Alan Klapmeier, co-founder of Cirrus Design

“Turn right! Keep your speed up! See how you like it!”
— An AirVenture visitor mistakes a GANews employee for an FAA tower controller because both wear pink shirts at the big show

“Our challenge — our goal — is to make 1 million pilots — and we can do it.”
— EAA President Tom Poberezny

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