Best 283 quotes in «aviation quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.

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

It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

It's a great day for TWA.

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's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.

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