Quotes About Aviation

I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.

Ultimately, an aircraft owner does not want to have to deal with all the intricate details which are necessary for the business.

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

New Guinea was sort of a graveyard for planes.

I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.

An airplane cabin isn't the first place people think of when they choose an exhibition space, but I'm all for doing things differently.

By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?

Not until the space shuttle started flying did NASA concede that some astronauts didn't have to be fast-jet pilots. And at that point, sure enough, women started becoming astronauts.

So with 'Ascent,' one of the things I wanted to do was not make it too remote from the reader, for it to be engaged with the human side and not just to be about the cold metal of planes and spacecraft.

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

I think any pilot with my kind of background, flying ex-military-type aircraft and experimental aircraft, would say that the pinnacle is to be able to pilot a spacecraft - there's no question.

I've had a great life. And I want that one more thing, to be up in a Virgin Galactic spaceship with Sir Richard Branson.

I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic.

Every plane crash brings us closer to safety, improves the system, and makes the next flight safer…

People with too much smoke and complicated tricks and methods in their brains start missing elementary, very elementary things. Persons in the real world can't afford to miss these things; otherwise they crash the plane. Unlike

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.