“Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing.”

- At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base (Kadena, Japan)

"Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart."

- Baron Manfred von Richthofen

"I never went into the air thinking I would lose"

- Commander Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, USN

"I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles
and the flak, and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone."

-Richard Bach