Top 168 Aviation Quotes & Sayings

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

I have always been an aviation nerd. I read the magazines.

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

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

Miramar is known as the aviation hub; many businesses right here in the city are supplying the aviation industry.

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

People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.

There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as an aviation incident. There are other vulnerabilities to be dealt with.

This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.

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

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

Infantry, Artillery, Aviation - all that we have - are yours to dispose of as you will. . . . I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history.

I was a big aviation buff as a boy.

In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.

No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a passing whim (if it had been the hard work would have dispelled it in a very short time!). I think there were three chief reasons for my choice of career: First, a real love for, and interest in aviation Secondly, a determination to earn my own money and to make my career a paying proposition. Thirdly, a conviction that aviation was a profession of the future and therefore had room to welcome its new followers.

My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

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

I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.

There is also a huge potential for developing the aviation and space industries. As you might have noticed we have launched a new Russian spaceport in one of the Far Eastern regions.

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

I think it's inevitable that aviation is a part of the economic growth that surrounds airports.

I'd manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else.

My one concern is that when money gets tight, it's easy to cut R&D funding that isn't tied to a specific project - look at what's happened to NASA's aviation research.

I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does.

I think I've got such a diverse set of interests - movies, aviation, technology, sports teams.

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

I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.

Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market.

Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation - especially in its military aspects.

It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.

Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of aviation and about a tenth of trucking. But it's not benign, because there's so much of it. So shipping emissions are about three to four percent, almost the same as aviation's.

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

I don't fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

Aviation is going to control the world economically and militarily whether we like it or not. Airpower is not merely military aviation, it is also civilian aviation and airpower is peace power.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

It was like I need something else in my life, and that's when I kind of went back to my childhood interest in aviation and aerospace, and I just started flying.

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

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.