"If God had intended us to fly he would never have given us the railways," quipped Michael Flanders and Donald Swann in the 1950s.

“如果上帝希望我们乘飞机的话，他根本就不会赐予我们铁路”，在20世纪50年代，迈克尔·弗兰德斯和唐纳德·斯旺曾如此调侃道。