As horrible thoughts, Loud fluttering aircraft slope above his head At dusk. The ridiculous empires break like biscuits.

-Fuller, Roy Broadbent
  'The Middle of a War'.

I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

-Lindbergh, Charles A(ugustus)
  In Time, 26 May.

An unsinkable air-craft carrier.

-MacArthur, Douglas
  Of  Taiwan's military significance for the US. Remark, 27  Aug, recalled in  A Soldier Speaks.