Top 256 Aircraft Quotes & Sayings

I established strong connections between Rockwell and Israel Aircraft Industries.

I know something about aircraft carriers for real.

The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

I was on the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier. That's an experience I'll never forget.

The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that.

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!

When your flying in a jet aircraft, everything goes much faster.

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

A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.

I fly a light aircraft.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on bottom and domed on top. These objects are as large as man-made aircraft and have a metallic or light-reflecting surface. Further they exhibit extreme rates of climb and maneuverability with no associated sound and take action which must be considered evasive when contacted by aircraft and radar.

American values don't begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it's obsolete."

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to "see" things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses. It gave me the same thrill that I felt in the early days of radio when I first heard a voice coming out of a horn.

I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

To the aircraft I aim, not the man.

We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft.

The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation.

You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.

The threat from unmanned aircraft systems in the U.S. is steadily escalating.

Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.

The Bf 109 is, without doubt, the most satisfying and challenging aircraft that I have ever flown.

Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?

One of the greatest honors in my life is serving as the sponsor of the new aircraft carrier bearing Dad's name.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

Mississippi is home to a significant level of national defense work, such as shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, and critical research.

Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft.

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.

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.

This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.

I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time.

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.

While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

I've been flying high-performance aircraft for a really long time.

It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat.

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no - and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem.

The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.

I was the first woman Marine to fly in an F-18 in combat, and I got to land on aircraft carriers.