Extended Reading

Flyboys quotes

  • Captain Thenault: Any questions?

    Eddie Beagle: [raises hand] Yes, sir. Will we be back by lunch.

    [boys snicker]

    Captain Thenault: I mean any intelligent questions.

    Eddie Beagle: Sorry. Just trying to loosen things up.

    Captain Thenault: Don't.

  • [first lines]

    Title Card: By the start of 1916, World War I had wreaked havoc across Europe. Over nine million people would eventually die.

    Title Card: Although the airplane had only recently been invented, it was quickly adapted into a war machine.

    Title Card: The young men who flew them became the first fighter pilots and a new kind of hero was born.