Quotes About Aviation

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.

In 1948, at age seventy-six, Orville Wright died after two heart attacks.

When asked to give his opinion as to why airpower was stillborn in the U.S., with little funding or interest coming from the navy or army, he replied: "Conservatism. . . . You see, the army and the navy are the oldest institutions we have. They place everything on precedent. You can't do that in the air business. You have got to look ahead.

The airmen were considered the most important passengers on the carriers.

they have about forty Dassault Rafale E's, the top-of-the-line export variant of the standard French tactical fighter. This is a very bad-ass aircraft indeed, boys and girls. Good range, good sensors, good ECM, day and night, all-weather capable, and it can deliver large amounts of all kinds of very nasty ordnance with unnerving accuracy." "Vive la France," somebody down the table muttered.

It was the monster of all winged dinosaurs, the pteranodon.

The fighter's winged-scarab fuselage described a tight Immelmann that brought it squarely into the last target's rear aspect.

Death in the Clouds

Captain Oveur Joey, do you like movies about gladiators

Flying involves endless hours of sheer boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.

She may have discovered how to solve the problem of aviation in music. What makes an aviator what he is? An aviator is a person who deals with getting heavier-than-air objects off the ground. She could do that, musically and emotionally. She could take a feeling and actually lift it off the ground, and it would stay there.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

There are downsides to a lot of things. There are downsides to flying - people die every now and then. Do you want to stop all air flights? There are downsides to pharma; sometimes they're misused. Do you want to stop using pills?

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

I'm rubbish at maths but I would like to have been a pilot.

I dreamt of running my own business even as a kid, but if not a CEO, I would have probably been a pilot.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.