Best 283 quotes in «aviation quotes» category

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.

The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.

There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as an aviation incident. There are other vulnerabilities to be dealt with.

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.

There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.

There is also a huge potential for developing the aviation and space industries. As you might have noticed we have launched a new Russian spaceport in one of the Far Eastern regions.

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy the route as well.

This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

This is a nasty, rotten business.

This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

Those were my children being slaughtered.

This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

Through you, we feel as giants, once again.

To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.

To the aircraft I aim, not the man.

We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all.

Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you.

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

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

We have to make you think it's an important seat - because you're in it.

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import replacement). We have to do transportation differently, because mass motoring and even commercial aviation will soon be over. We have to inhabit the landscape differently because both suburbia and the metroplex mega-city will be obsolete, so we will have to return to a more traditional disposition of things in smaller urbanisms associated with productive agricultural hinterlands.

We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service.

We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?

What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn to become a pilot is to learn - not to let oneself fly too slowly. Not to let oneself turn without accelerating. Not to cross the controls. Not to do this, and not to do that. . . . To pilot is negation.

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

When asked by someone how much money flying takes: Why, all of it!