Best 283 quotes in «aviation quotes» category

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.

I counted them all out and I counted them all back.

I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.

I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.

If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service.

I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

If you don't like what you see, stop looking.

If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.

If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.

If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet).

I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear than the men have. At least, more women than men asked to go up with me. And when I took them up, they seemed to enjoy it.

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

I have flown ValuJet. ValuJet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system.

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

I just made a balls of it, old boy. That's all there was to it.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.

In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.

In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.

I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

I put my bullets into the target as if I placed them there by hand.

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.

I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute.

Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?

I think the first what would happen in the immediate wake of a hard Brexit is a lack of confidence in UK economy. Business is already telling me that they need a year or so to adjust to what is going to change in March 2019. Without a deal, tariffs would immediately kick in and we would need all the physical attributes of a customs border. And that is just the trade aspect. Imagine what would happen if, from one day to the next, we had no aviation agreement or no agreements for dealing with security across Europe.

It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.