Quotes About Aircraft

In the air corps, 35,946 personnel died in nonbattle situations, the vast majority of them in accidental crashes.*1 Even in combat, airmen appear to have been more likely to die from accidents than combat itself. A report issued by the AAF surgeon general suggests that in the Fifteenth Air Force, between November 1, 1943, and May 25, 1945, 70 percent of men listed as killed in action died in operational aircraft accidents, not as a result of enemy action.

It's a baby plane," Angel whispered when we first got inside the dollhouse-like interior. "It's going to grow up to be a seven forty-seven someday.

of AIM Sparrow and AIM Sidewinder missiles, nestled under the wings, hummed as they powered on

Before running for office, I was an A-10 squadron commander with 325 combat hours. During my time in uniform and since coming to the House and taking up the fight to keep the plane, I have heard countless stories from American soldiers about how the A-10 saved their lives.

We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter.

Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

On one foggy, misty night, King ordered the air groups from the Lexington and Saratoga to launch simultaneously well after sunset. The chaos was predictable but, in King's mind, instructional.

Mosquito Squadron

As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business.

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

With respect to altitude, MEA means you would fly the highest of the following: Minimum en route altitude, Expected altitude, or Assigned altitude. When do you leave your clearance limit? That depends.

You are X miles from the marker; turn left heading 120 degrees, maintain 3,000 feet until established on the localizer, cleared for the ILS 9R approach at KXYZ.

N2864F, line up and wait.

yards, she recognized the light blue hull of the modified 747.

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

Grumman twin-engine Goose

Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter.

It's never good when you're in an airplane and it suddenly feels like you're outdoors.

Two passing jetliners reported to controllers they'd seen a man with a gun seated on a deck chair at eleven thousand feet…

great white blimp tethered to a cornfield—a surveillance balloon.

Vee-one meant the aircraft had reached sufficient takeoff speed and there was no going back.

we started to work on new digital business models—like enabling and reselling Wi-Fi time on aircraft, and our Sentience platform for developing new software products