Best 283 quotes in «aviation quotes» category

When I worked on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea we were advised to only use the medical oxygen after the daily headaches appeared and that just 15 minutes use was all that was needed to clear up the headaches for a while before we would need it again. We were not advised to use medical oxygen continuously as the Federal Aviation Regulations advises pilots to do. We were not advised to use pulse oximeters to monitor our blood oxygen levels or that the company medical oxygen should have been routinely administered only with our doctors prescription.

Where the world saw 'nothing'; And called it 'empty'.. I saw an Ocean of Air; Filled with opportunities...!

Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition. (1894)

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

You are supposed to know how to fly or you would not be here. You will now learn to fly all over again. Our way. I have examined your logbooks. They contain some interesting and clever lies. If you are lucky and work a good solid eighteen hours a day in this school, it is barely possible that a few of you may succeed in actually going out on the line-that is, if the company is still in such desperate need of pilots that it will hire anybody who wears his wings in his lapel and walks slowly past the front door.

Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

Air Canada. That's a good name for a Canadian airline.

Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime.

Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

Always carry through an attack when you have started it.

Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!

All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one.

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.

Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

As long as I look into the muzzles, nothing can happen to me. Only if he pulls lead am I in danger.

At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.

Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing.

Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass!

But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.

Can build plane... Delivery about three months.

Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.

Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.

Always turn and face the attack.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.

Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.