Best 283 quotes in «aviation quotes» category

Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the only industry I know that has lost money consistently and makes money infrequently.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

Height gives you the initiative.

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

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

How does 2002 bombing accident in Afghanistan happen? In this awful case it took so many lives, and I want to assure the families and the people of Canada that these questions will be answered. How this can happen is a mystery to us.

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'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 the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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 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.