Quotes About Aviation

I put it in the back of my mind that someday I would fly around the world.

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

Even now, at just three years old, it is obvious that Luke longs to fly. It is like seeing Anakin all over again. The mop of unruly blond hair, the bright blue eyes, the hands permanently tinkering. Luke isn't content to just play with his toys. He's constantly at work modifying them, making improvements.

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.

You can't have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis.

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.

Neta crawled out of the wreckage, hoping against hope that Amelia wasn't hurt. She wasn't. She was standing next to the plane, grinning and powdering her nose. "We have to look nice [if] reporters arrive," she said.

How long the flight took on one of those old prop aircraft on any given day depended on the size of the bugs that hit the windshield and slowed it down.

If black boxes survive air crashes, why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Any landing you could walk away from was a good landing.

The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence - after that, I didn't fly for four years. Then a job came up in India, so I did a simulator flight and learnt about what goes on in the cockpit. I'm fine now.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

We turned our planes around after landing and got them off again in 20 minutes back in the early days; 15 minutes in many cases. That gave us a huge cost advantage because we could do more flying in a day with a single plane than anybody else.

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

I have a TV show, a radio show. I've authored two books. I own a construction company, own a commercial fishing lodge, and am a pilot.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.