Aircraft Quotes

Aircraft Quote of the day

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.

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

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.

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

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

Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.

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

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity.

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

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

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

It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that.

The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.

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.

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

Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

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.

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.

Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.

Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

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

Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

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.

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

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

We have good joint projects in the helicopter and aircraft manufacturing industry. We are considering cooperation and are actively cooperating in space. There are good prospects there [with China].

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

Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars?

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.

It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle.

I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat.

Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

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

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

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