Best 283 quotes in «aviation quotes» category

Simplicate, and add lightness!

Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.

The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.

Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.

The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.

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 Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

The aviation industry, including combat air force, has been traditionally developing here. It is the Russian Far East where the SU aircraft, which are well known worldwide, are manufactured.

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

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

The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

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

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

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

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

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 lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

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

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.

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

This is a nasty, rotten business.