“Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.” WarSpecialMilitaryWeaponsValuableAirplaneTanks Author:George S. Patton
“Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.” WorldHas BeensStillsReasonGovernmentNationsLandSecurityMilitaryTinyFriendlyCivilizedRepublicDeniedAirplanePermissionWarshipsDeveloped Nations Author:Thor Heyerdahl
“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.” ValuesInterestingCreativityMilitarySillyDumbAirplaneToysPredictionsLast Words Author:Ferdinand Foch
“It's your duty to fly the airplane. If you get killed in it, you don't know anything about it anyway. Duty is paramount. It's that simple if you're a military guy. You don't say 'I'm not going to do that - that's dangerous.' If it's your duty to do it, that's the way it is.” IfsKnowsWayGuySimpleMilitaryDangerousDutyAirplaneParamount Author:Chuck Yeager
“I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II? Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks - and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well - because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.” ThinkingWorldWayYearsFirstsWellsWarWantedSidesFourMilitaryAmountBattleAidsOpeningPlanesWar Of The WorldsCivil WarAlliesWorld War IiFour YearsAirplaneWorld War ITroopsUniformsNaziTanksSympatheticFrancoSpanish Civil WarFrancisco Franco Author:Adam Hochschild
“Under the Barack Obama rules, if you wanted to help the military, if you wanted a pay raise for the soldiers, if you wanted to buy new airplanes and new ships and more munitions, a dollar for that, you had to have a dollar domestic spending. We just broke that parity. That's the biggest victory we could have had: $25 billion year over year for our military, to begin to rebuild our military, without that kind of corresponding increase in domestic discretionary spending.” KindHelpingMilitaryVictorySoldierBarackBrokeAirplane Author:Paul Ryan