Best 283 quotes in «aviation quotes» category

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.

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

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

Pan Am can go to hell.

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

See, decide, attack, reverse.

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.

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

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

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

Simplicate, and add lightness!

She flew like a bird, only faster.

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

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 aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.

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

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

Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.

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

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 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 best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

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

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

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

The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.

The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.

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 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 helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

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

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

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 important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.

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

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

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

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 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'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 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.

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.