Beryl Markham

 ''After this era of great pilots is gone,'' observed Beryl Markham, ''as the era of great sea captains has gone . . . it will be found, I think, that all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it. . . . And the days of clipper ships will be recalled again -and people will wonder if clipper means ancients of the sea or ancients of the air.'' 

"One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, curves and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly..."  

Beryl Markham, West with the Night p186