Best 283 quotes in «aviation quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.

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

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

It's a great day for TWA.

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.

It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But if your airplane breaks down, you can't sit on a convenient cloud and tinker with that!

It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.

It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!

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

It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. The were made to fly as wingman, instead.

I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.