Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

“When Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris, it was to promote commercial air transport. For me, the symbol was the same, but the goal different. I wanted to pave the way for a widespread use of modern clean technologies. The arrival in Seville, being welcomed by the Swiss and Iberian coloured smoke of the Spanish Air Force team, was magical. The first transatlantic solar flight was achieved!”

Source: Explorer and innovator, Bertrand Piccard, who made the world’s first Atlantic solar-powered flight, flying from New York, USA to Seville, Spain on the 17th leg of the Solar Impulse 2 project’s historic round-the-world voyage -- on the fifth anniversary of the momentous flight and the inevitable comparison to tthe Lindbergh flight, decades before.

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