This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

- Juan Trippe

How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility and hate? …

- Juan Trippe

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

- Juan Trippe

In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

- Juan Trippe