“Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.” IfsBoysBaseballAirplane Author:Casey Stengel
“I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.” YearsMadeBornBoysAirplaneHistoricDinosaurs Author:Jim Lovell
“I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic books, and I began to create my own comic stories. I was a comic writer, even when I was five or six years old. I would just make up stories because I thought it was fun.” YearsBookStoriesFunMy OwnBoysFireFiveCarSixComicEnginesAirplaneComic BookSix Year Olds Author:Floyd Norman
“My father modestly referred to himself as the Great Santini when we were growing up. And he took it - I later learned he had seen a high-wire aerialist when he was a boy, and he was up doing acrobatics in his airplane, and when he came down one time - when was a young lieutenant - he said, I was better than the Great Santini today. And some of the other pilots heard it, and the nickname stuck.” SaidTodayYoungFatherBoysGrowing UpGrowingHeardStuckOne TimePilotsAirplaneWireNicknamesLieutenantsAcrobatics Author:Terry Gross