Best 283 quotes in «aviation quotes» category

Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!

Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.

Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me.

Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.

My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.

Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end.

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.

Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.

No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him.

Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

Nothing said I had to crash.

Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived.

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

Pan Am can go to hell.

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.

Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

See, decide, attack, reverse.

She flew like a bird, only faster.

Simplicate, and add lightness!

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

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

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

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

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

Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.

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

The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.

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.

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.