Best 283 quotes in «aviation quotes» category

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

I counted them all out and I counted them all back.

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 didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.