Aircraft Quotes:

I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time.

- Connie Kalitta

source: Source: blog.caranddriver.com

topic: Hobbies, Used, Aircraft

The Bf 109 is, without doubt, the most satisfying and challenging aircraft that I have ever flown.

- Mark Ashley Hanna

topic: Challenges, Doubt, Aircraft

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Money, Italian, Taxes Funny, Spanish And English, Money Is The Root Of All Evil

A fool and his money are soon married.

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Money, Fool, Married, Spanish And English, Money Is The Root Of All Evil

A fool and his money are soon elected.

- Will Rogers

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Fool, Spanish And English, Money Is The Root Of All Evil

A fool and his money are soon partying.

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Money, Party, Spanish And English, Money Is The Root Of All Evil

Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war.

- Keith B. McCutcheon

topic: War, Marine, Order, Modern War, Obsolescence

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

- Howard Hughes

topic: Sweat, Aircraft

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

- Chuck Yeager

topic: Military, Saws, Firsts, Military Aviation, Aircraft

If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

- Prince Philip

topic: Class, Appreciate, Design, Ghastly, Aircraft

Ultimately, an aircraft owner does not want to have to deal with all the intricate details which are necessary for the business.

- Niki Lauda

source: Source: www.european-business.com

topic: Aircraft

We continue to receive reports that the morale of some elements is being damaged, .. They are being affected by the impunity with which NATO aircraft can operate over Kosovo and Serbia, the accuracy and the growing knowledge.. of deployed locations. In summary, NATO has eroded the capability of Milosevic's war machine and it is being further reduced as each day goes by.

- John Day

topic: War, Growing Knowledge, Elements, Summary, Aircraft

There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course...

- Jim Marrs

topic: Morning, War, Exercise, Controllers, War Games

Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

- Alain de Botton

source: "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

topic: Reality, Optimism, Lines, Stranded, Proximity

A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.

- William Bushnell Stout

topic: Vehicle, Capable, Aircraft

While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.

- Gordon Cooper

topic: Lakes, Air, California, Flying Saucers, Aircraft

During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.

- Norm Dicks

topic: Past, Government, Years, Airbus, Aircraft

During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.

- Bo Gritz

topic: Team, Digging, Laos, Debris, Team Member

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

- Jamie Dimon

source: "JPMorgan CEO Hits Back at Policymakers in Davos" by Yousef Gamal El-Din, Antonia van de Velde, www.cnbc.com. January 23, 2013.

topic: Risk, Opaque, Management, Aircraft

Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

- Brené Brown

source: Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.115, Penguin

topic: Bridges, Perfection, Way, Below The Surface, Aircraft

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

- Amar Bose

topic: Military, Design, Use, Jet Engines, Aircraft

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

- Albert Speer

topic: Normal, Opinion, Sickness, Aircraft

This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.

- Niki Lauda

topic: Looks, Aircraft

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

- Adolf Galland

topic: Three, Today, Driven, Productions, Propeller

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

- Dave Reichert

topic: Taken, Airplane, Overcoming, Aircraft

I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

- Henri Coanda

topic: Moving, Land, Ideas, Cyclones, Moving Parts

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

- Leroy Chiao

topic: Flying, Aircraft

What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How would the comment section on YouTube change if, to use it, you had to have the schooling necessary to have a basic understanding of how computers and the internet work? More seriously, would anyone smart enough to know how to design and build a tank, or a laser guided anti-aircraft missile, or a computer and video editing software be stupid enough to join ISIS? In fact, if such knowledge was required—would it even be possible for there to be standing armies?

- John C. Wright

topic: Smart, Stupid, Silly, Editing Software, Video Editing

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

- Robin Sloan

topic: America, Google, Aircraft Carriers, Aircraft

At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: War, Fighting, Winning, First Class, Aircraft

If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.

- Larry Walters

topic: Brother, Able, Hawks, Wright Brothers, Aircraft

If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

- Igor Sikorsky

topic: Flower, Airplane, Men, Aircraft

If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible to do the same thing for motor vehicles, heating and air-conditioning systems, and computers. This project voices our conviction that a pioneering spirit with political vision can together change society and bring about an end to fossil fuel dependency.

- Bertrand Piccard

source: "Solar-powered plane reaches new heights". CNN interview, edition.cnn.com. April 19, 2010.

topic: Night, Air, Voice, Solar Energy, Pioneering

Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Life, Men, Thinking, Aircraft

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

- Denis Healey

topic: People, Used, Taxpayers, Aircraft

We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft.

- Willie Walsh

topic: Order, Bigs, Aircraft

Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.

- Ernie Pyle

topic: Military, War, Believe, Minority Groups, Payday

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

- Nido R Qubein

source: Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

topic: Light, Goal, Achievement, Landing, Aircraft

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

- Moira Johnston

source: Moira Johnston (2000). “The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America”, p.49, Beard Books

topic: Years, Boredom, Banking, Aircraft

I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

- Mark Pryor

topic: Fighting, Wings, Nails, Reducing, Aircraft

These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.

- Norm Dicks

topic: Government, Cost, Debt, Injection, Assistance

The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

- John S. Pistole

topic: Hurt, Technology, Air, Al Qaeda, Aircraft

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

- Norm Dicks

topic: Years, British, Airbus, Aircraft

Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.

- Burt Rutan

topic: Reality, Years, Ideas, Virtual Reality, Fossil Fuel

Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.

- Yves Rossy

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Dream, Men, Wings, Aircraft

Failure of success is not race-related; it's not socioeconomics-related; it is really predictable, based on principles that are laid down by God the Creator by which we are supposed to function. If we find them and obey them, success becomes inevitable. That's why I was able to move from rats to 40,000 feet in the air in my own aircraft.

- Myles Munroe

topic: Moving, Race, Air, Aircraft

My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

- Buzz Aldrin

source: Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

topic: Team, Korea, Europe, Fighter Jets, Supporting Each Other

Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!

- Buzz Aldrin

source: "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

topic: Thinking, Dwelling, Mind, Aircraft

The events of September 11 would have been impossible if there were no airport security system at all. If average Americans were allowed to carry their personal firearms on board our aircraft ..., the chances that several passengers on each flight would have been armed-and thus able to shoot the hijackers, preventing the Trade Center and Pentagon hits-would have been quite substantial.

- Vin Suprynowicz

topic: Security Systems, Average, Airports, Airport Security, Aircraft

I established strong connections between Rockwell and Israel Aircraft Industries.

- Arnon Milchan

topic: Strong, Israel, Connections, Strong Connection, Aircraft

The way an aircraft flies - that is the way the strategy works. Most of the time the plane is on autopilot, and does a great job of flying itself. Every once in a while it is necessary for the pilot to jump in.

- Roy Niederhoffer

topic: Jobs, Flying, Pilots, Aircraft, Autopilot

We will step up support for the non-commodity export sector, working more closely with potential buyers of Russian goods. We do have something to offer in the IT sphere, the nuclear power industry, aircraft manufacturing, the aerospace industry and a number of other sectors

- Dmitry Medvedev

topic: Aerospace, Numbers, Support, Aircraft