Best 283 quotes in «aviation quotes» category

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.

The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.

The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were no undesirable flight characteristics. The directional stability was excellent and, properly trimmed, the B-17 could be taken off, landed and banked without change of trim.

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 good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Those were my children being slaughtered.

Through you, we feel as giants, once again.

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

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

To the aircraft I aim, not the man.

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

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

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