Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker (collectively known as ZAZ)

Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker (collectively known as ZAZ), wrote Airplane!

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote "Airplane!

Jerry Zucker

The box-office success was directed by John Landis and written by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, who subsequently wrote the classic film comedy, Airplane!.

Jim Abrahams

Jim Abrahams didn't' write a lot, but wrote Naked Gun and Airplane!.

Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker (collectively known as Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, or ZAZ)

Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker (collectively known as Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, or ZAZ), wrote Airplane!

Janet Maslin

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote "Airplane!

with David Zucker and Jim Abrahams

The True Story of Airplane!, written with David Zucker and Jim Abrahams.

David Zucker

The writer-director-producer traces David Zucker's roots back to the mother of all spoof comedies, the relentlessly brilliant Airplane!.

the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, who subsequently wrote and directed Airplane

The film's writers were the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, who subsequently wrote and directed Airplane!, Top Secret!, and the Police Squad!

Arthur Hailey

Please note that in this episode, Chris Haley says that Arthur Hailey was the author of Airplane, but the author is actually Airport!.

David Lowery

David Lowery is a producer and writer, known for Airplane!

and J.P. Davis

Plane was written by Charles Cumming and J.P. Davis.

HG Wells

HG Wells wrote airplanes in 1907 just four years after Wright Brothers first powered flight in 1903 and seven years before WWI 1914 the first war with major aviation air battles.

Rudyard KiplingThe time is near when men will receive their normal impressions of a new country suddenly and in plannot slowly and in perspective; when the most extreme distances will be brought within the compass of one week's — one hundred and sixty-eight hours' — travel; when the word 'inaccessible' as applied to any given spot on the surface of the globewill cease to have any meaning.' , the English author and world traveler, , ,,

As early as 1907, Rudyard Kipling, the English author and world traveler, had written about the airplane with remarkable prescience: 'The time is near when men will receive their normal impressions of a new country suddenly and in plan, not slowly and in perspective; when the most extreme distances will be brought within the compass of one week's — one hundred and sixty-eight hours' — travel; when the word 'inaccessible,' as applied to any given spot on the surface of the globe, will cease to have any meaning.'

by Charles Cumming

Plane was written by Charles Cumming and J.P. Davis.

Le Corbusier

After twenty-five years of fascination for heights and six of flying, stimulating experiences, Le Corbusier published Aircraft, a real “Manifesto for a New Era”, according to his own words.

Clayton Knight

Clayton Knight is also the author of books on airplanes.

Jules Verne - Verne

Jules Verne - Verne wrote about many items long before they were ever invented: airplanes, helicopters, automobiles, submarines, computers and television to name a few.

French philosopher Rene Descartes

French philosopher Rene Descartes wrote down the airline and aircraft type of every arrival that rumbled overhead, noticing that each one had a different look.

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration.