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

"The clock was ticking. We'd taken the cells out of their culture media an hour before. We thought about driving to Barcelona, but that would have taken too long... We had a couple of conversations, and within two hours the surgeon was in Bristol -- with his private jet."

Source: Professor Martin Birchall, lead researcher among a team of British, German, and Spanish doctors who partnered on the effort that resulted in the first-ever transplant of a donor trachea, or windpipe, into a patient without the need for immunosuppresants. The novel novel medical procedure almost didn't happen this summer, however, thanks to a certain British low-cost airline... and it was general aviation that literally flew to the rescue.

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