Quotes About Aviation

Captain, the weather radar has helped us a lot.

Aviation experts will tell you that it is the success of this war on mitigation as much as anything else that accounts for the extraordinary decline in airline accidents in recent years.

Planes are safer when the least experienced pilot is flying, because it means the second pilot isn't going to be afraid to speak up.

situation is. The flight engineer points to the empty fuel gauge, and makes a throat-cutting gesture with his finger.* But he says nothing. Nor does anyone else for the next five minutes. There's radio chatter and routine business, and then the flight engineer cries

In 52 percent of crashes, the pilot at the time of the accident has been awake for twelve hours or more, meaning that he is tired and not thinking sharply.

I've spent half my life on planes.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Peter Rodrick was one of only around 4,000 men in the world qualified to land jets on a carrier after dark.

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

Later in life, I'd like to end up doing air races.

The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.

Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

In racing, you want to win - there are no rules, and you can do whatever you want. Flying a plane is the opposite: you respect rules and fly to the rules. You can't possibly compare the two.

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.

In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.

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

After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.

People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.

Flying gives me a tremendous sense of freedom and I hope that anyone who wishes to learn has the opportunity to do so.

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.