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

"We will keep trying. We were burned pretty badly tonight. We got rolling at the specific and frantic, yes, frantic, request of the authorities only to see it turn into a disappointing and frustrating exercise in futility. Lesson Number One: We will try to airlift folks going forward but will only call on our pilots when the people to be evacuated are at the airport, lined up, ready to go."

Source: Angel Flight SC, after putting together a massive relocation/rescue mission to Baton Rouge and being turned back by a confused bureaucracy as the aircraft were airborne and enroute to that embattled location. Undaunted, Angel Flight went back and completed that mission later in the week.
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