Quotes About Aviation

United's 2015 earnings were one of the best in the company's history.

I've obviously been an aviation, space enthusiast for a long time.

I've been a space and aviation enthusiast since as long as I can remember.

I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

Cocaine did him in, or morphine—did him in, they say, after he fell from an aeroplane somewhere in the marshes around Novgorod.

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

A - ALPHA B - BRAVO C - CHARLIE D - DELTA E - ECHO F - FOXTROT G - GOLF H - HOTEL I - INDIA J - JULIETT K - KILO L - LIMA M - MIKE N - NOVEMBER O - OSCAR P - PAPA Q - QUEBEC R - ROMEO S - SIERRA T - TANGO U - UNIFORM V - VICTOR W - WHISKEY       X - X-RAY Y - YANKEE Z - ZULU

All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village.

I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.

Paul shouted "Mayday!" over the radio. "Where did they come up with that word?" I asked Mother. "Easy to understand on a radio, I guess.

Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster.

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

Everything that the FAA (the Federal Aviation Administration) has, I've got the license for.

Reece thought of one of Ox's favorite sayings: "If you get in a helicopter and it's not leaking, get ready to crash because that means it's out of hydraulic fluid.

Why the United States did not screen passengers ahead of time like El Al, Ali would never understand.

And suddenly the cockpit of the Lancaster breasts the cloud tops, and there is the sky, vast and clear and brilliantly blue. The wisps of cloud that rush past you are so white that you can't believe you've ever seen true whiteness before.

There are not two ways about it, he was a wonderful pilot and an even better shot

As much as he loved to fly, in the prewar years he regarded his RAF aircraft more as a tool for cracking open English high society than as a weapon for defeating Britain's enemies.

When he took charge of the Air Corps in 1938, it was in pitiful shape—a pale shadow of the mighty Luftwaffe or Britain's Royal Air Force. Arnold himself called his service "practically nonexistent." Ranked twentieth in size among the world's air forces and still under Army control, it had a few hundred combat planes, many of them obsolete, and fewer than nineteen thousand officers and enlisted men.

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80% of plane crashes occur in the first three or last eight minutes of a flight.