“The future of personal aviation depends on us.”
— Harrison Ford, chairman of the Young Eagles program
“I think the FAA has been drinking the airlines’ Kool-Aid.”
— Rep. Robin Hayes (R.-N.C.) on the user fee proposal
“If you don’t like user fees, tell us what you like instead.”
— Doug Murphy, administrator of the FAA’s Southern region
“We used to refer to the aviation industry as Wrestle Mania. At the end of the bout, you looked around to see who was still standing.”
— Rick Adam, founder, Adam Aircraft
“If you look at all the accidents over the last several years, there is a mind-numbing consistency to the way we wreck airplanes.”
— Jim Lauerman, executive vice president of Avemco, an aviation insurance company