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If anyone tries to tell you something about an aeroplane which is so damn complicated that you can’t understand it, you can take it from me it’s all balls.

R. J. Mitchell

Aeronautical engineer and designer of the Spitfire, told to test pilot Jeffrey Quill in the 1930’s. Quoted in his 1983 book Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story.

R J Mitchell

I plead for a policy of hurrying slowly. We have a great Minister of Aviation, a young man capable and imaginative but if he pursues this policy, he will, as I believe, ruin civil aviation from the point of view of paying, for ever. He said the other day, in a great speech before the Society of Aircraft Constructors:

“Space beckons us with a golden finger”.

My Lords, it beckons us to the three brass balls of the pawnbroker.

Lord Brabazon of Tara

UK House of Lords debate Supersonic Civil Aircraft, 13 November 1962. The Minister of Aviation was Julian Amery, the outcome was Concorde. The next speaker was Lord Shackleton:

“My Lords, we expected an entertaining speech from the noble Lord, Lord Brabazon of Tara, and we certainly got it.”

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One thing was to know how to fly the airplane. He has to know it, to love to fly, to be aggressive and to have good eyeballs and to know how to use them. I’d say he has to have an instinctive capability for air fighting. …Fighting spirit one must have. Even if a man lacks some of the other qualifications, he can often make up for it in fighting spirit.

Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF

Triple ace, with 17 combat victories in WWII and the Vietnam War. Quoted in the 1972 book Fighter Tactics and Strategy 1914 - 1970. At the time he said this, he was Comandant of Cadets at the Air Force Academy, after commanding the 8th Wing at Ubon, Thailand, during the Vietnam War.

Robin Olds

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I just made a balls of it, old boy. That’s all there was to it.

Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader

About his December 1931 roll performed immediately after takeoff that ended in the crash that led to the loss of both legs. He later flew fighters again, and led a wing of Spitfires during the Battle of Britain. Quoted in Wizard Prangs, The Spectator magazine, 14 November 1981.

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Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real world.

Mary Shafer

SR-71 Flying Qualities Lead Engineer, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. Newsgroup posting, c. 1990.

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down… The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

Michael O’Leary

CEO Ryanair CEO, The Telegraph newspaper, 24 February 2010.

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