Aircraft Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (A) Quotes

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I`d still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I`d still be doing it if I didn`t blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

- Robbie Williams

All the available pavement we have is being used for parking of the aircraft,

- Patrick Wilson

The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda`s daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun (in North Vietnam) was a betrayal...The largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine.

- Jane Fonda

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

- Jeremy Irons

Call it enlightened cowardice, if you like. Actually, over the years I discovered that I just didn`t enjoy flying, and I became aware of compromised safety margins in commercial aviation that are never mentioned in airline advertising. So I decided I`d rather travel by sea, and take my chances with the icebergs (...) I am afraid of aeroplanes. I`ve been able to avoid flying for some time but, I suppose, if I had to I would. Perhaps it`s a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. At one time, I had a pilot`s licence and 160 hours of solo time on single-engine light aircraft. Unfortunately, all that seemed to do was make me mistrust large aeroplanes.

- Stanley Kubrick

I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing`s capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

- Mark Pryor

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

- Paul Martin

In the last months we got pilots who had fifty hours total flying time, including five hours of the operational aircraft. It`s not very much.

- Adolf Galland

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May `43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in `42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn`t have any priority in design or production.

- Adolf Galland

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

- Adolf Galland

It`s unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

- Adolf Galland

We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.

- Adolf Galland

Any individual who touches a Northwest aircraft will be fully trained in the Northwest maintenance program. Some were furloughed from other airlines. Some are from vendors that already work on Northwest equipment. ... We recruited from a rather large pool the best we could get. They`re certainly not off the street.

- Andy Roberts

It`s not a matter of how fast that they work on it. It`s a matter of the precision that they use and the precision tools that they work. And there is a productivity requirement because the soldiers up front are waiting for the soldiers to return, whether for Medivac aircraft or fire power support,

- David Williams

They require the kind of courage that none of us would have. It`s a kind of courage that`s very hard to understand. And it`s our duty to try to understand it because it is the courage of desperation. And what is the difference between somebody who goes into a coffee house with the intention of killing as many people as possible - and does so - and somebody who`s in an aeroplane at the height of five miles, unobtainable by any anti-aircraft gun, and lets their bombs drop as scientifically as possible, in order to kill as few people as possible? I guarantee that the one who tries to kill as few people as possible will kill many more than the one who goes into a snack bar and blows himself or herself up. But in this campaign, I wonder how many of the people who have been killed were terrorists? I think very, very few. To my mind, it`s a big lie. - On Palestinian suicide bombers

- Peter Ustinov

We have a strong team working on the Mustang program, and they`ve achieved a major milestone by getting production unit one off the ground a month early, ... The Mustang team laid the foundation for this success in the early assembly and use of production tooling to build these first aircraft, significantly decreasing the amount of rework and squawks. In addition, systems installation and functional testing progressed well ahead of schedule.

- Russ Meyer

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy`s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

- Winston Churchill

We want to help them get the word out that they converted from the Otter to the Beechcraft, ... We want people to experience the aircraft and hopefully the word of mouth will translate into more passengers.

- Danny Roberts

This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.

- Niki Lauda

An aircraft was sent out early this morning and saw a light diesel sheen which is heading northeast away from the island.

- David Gray

There was an inflight breakup of the aircraft,

- John Lee

You could estimate 50 per cent of the aircraft had fallen apart in the sky.

- John Lee

We`re not just looking to reduce the noise an aircraft makes but also to change the way it`s flown to produce significant noise savings.

- Tom Reynolds

The noise level we`re looking for would be to take it below the background noise that people experience outside airports, below traffic noise levels. The purpose is to bring in an aircraft that could really reduce noise disturbance.

- Paul Collins

Clearly we need to do everything we can to reduce the impact of aviation on people who live near airports and our project is looking at ways of keeping the aircraft higher for longer which will keep the noise further away and also at lower thrust settings as they`re coming in to land.

- Paul Collins

The noise level we`re looking for would be to take it below the background noise that people experience outside airports ... below traffic noise levels, ... Silent Aircraft Initiative.

- Paul Collins

If it weren`t for him and the actions of his crew, there`s a good chance I and the other crewmen from the aircraft would not be here today,

- Steve Edwards

You would never get away with designing an aircraft as noisy and fuel inefficient as the Concorde in the early days of the 21st Century,

- Paul Jackson

I saw it climbing up in the air. It was making a steep climb that you usually don`t see aircraft do like that. And just as I was wondering why was he making such a steep climb up then the plane sort of flattened out and took a nose dive straight down until it hit the ground.

- James King

These planes are essentially real aircraft. Everything you have to do to operate them is comparable to flying a full-scaled airplane; we just stand on the ground to operate it.

- Keith Edwards

That means an aircraft operators use of air traffic control resources determines the amount owed to the FAA, whether the aircraft is carrying three or thirty or three-hundred passengers.

- Jim May

It`s still a dangerous aircraft,

- Eric Miller

This is yet another sad chapter in the history of bad Pentagon weapons systems acquisitions. For years, the Air Force has known it was paying too much for an aircraft that doesn`t do what it`s supposed to. Yet it has turned a blind eye.

- Eric Miller

Our first and gravest priority is simply to ensure that no other Marine is asked to give his life until this aircraft is safe and until it is determined to be ready for the Marine Corps` mission,

- Brian Nelson

Boeing licenses its commercial and military aircraft trademarks to model makers and, as required by federal law, monitors the quality of these products,

- David Phillips

To see this damage and to hear such a unique and great possession like this had been destroyed was just crushing. Today`s been full of a lot of memories, just about all the wonderful flights that I had taken in the aircraft and my history with it.

- Bob King

It is truly amazing to see how these men and women get together, ... No kidding -- when the support aircraft hit the ground -- they scatter and then 10 minutes before the jets arrive everyone is back in place and everything is done. It is an amazing process to watch.

- Brian Bishop

(Southwest turns its planes around twice as fast as competitors, getting more flights out of expensive aircraft and pilots. Wal-Mart invented loading-dock processes to quash expensive inventory. Dell runs) their entire company with three days of inventory, you pay up front, and they stiff their suppliers, ... Operations is where these industries are won and lost.

- Michael Hammer

It was very fortunate that our three Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers - Enterprise, Saratoga and Lexington - missed the Pearl Harbor attack.

- Jack Adams

As new aircraft programs are introduced and upgrades are made to existing fleets in the coming years, we expect to see strong demand for simulated maintenance trainers.

- Andrew Day

Because their planes were destroyed on Saipan, he was taken into the Marines which had aircraft.

- Ron Meyer

As I said, we had acquired some aircraft, and the same propaganda team, Guatemalan propaganda team, prepared leaflets, which were in several phases.

- E. Howard Hunt

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

- Albert Speer

When you think about . . . going into another country for the first time, it`s a little daunting, ... I contacted the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and it was somewhat helpful, but they referred me to Baja Bush Pilots, and the information I got from them was far more helpful.

- James Webb

Well, they didn`t lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it`s just a few large buildings and aircraft, it`s not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

- Alaina Walker

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

- Allyn Lord

During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.

- Amir Salim

These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.

- Amir Salim

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

- Amir Salim

But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf.

- Amy Baylor