Aircraft Quotes

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

Warren Buffett

Money, Italian, Taxes Funny

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A fool and his money are soon partying.

Steven Wright

Funny, Money, Party

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A fool and his money are soon elected.

Will Rogers

Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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A fool and his money are soon married.

Carolyn Wells

Money, Italian, Fool

Carolyn Wells (1912). “The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady”

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

Howard Hughes

Sweat, Aviator, Built

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Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war.

Keith B. McCutcheon

War, Marine, Order

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The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

Chuck Yeager

Military, Saws, Firsts

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

Niki Lauda

Details, Doe, Want

Source: www.european-business.com

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If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

Prince Philip

Class, Appreciate, Design

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We continue to receive reports that the morale of some elements is being damaged, .. They are being affected by the impunity with which NATO aircraft can operate over Kosovo and Serbia, the accuracy and the growing knowledge.. of deployed locations. In summary, NATO has eroded the capability of Milosevic's war machine and it is being further reduced as each day goes by.

John Day

War, Growing Knowledge, Elements

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There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course.

Jim Marrs

Morning, War, Exercise

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Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

Alain de Botton

Reality, Optimism, Lines

"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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

William Bushnell Stout

Aviation, Airline, Vehicle

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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.

Gordon Cooper

Lakes, Air, California

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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Bill Gates

Success, Trust, Leadership

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He was the first to reach the aircraft, and he went for the door that by some miracle was facing outward and not into the concrete wall. Wrenching the thing open, and getting out his flashlight, he didn’t know what to expect inside—smoke? Fumes? Blood and body parts? Zsadist was sitting rigid in a backward-facing seat, his big body strapped in, both hands locked on the armrests. The Brother was staring straight ahead and not blinking. “Have we stopped moving?” he said hoarsely

J.R. Ward

Brother, Wall, Moving

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Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for just a few moments, I'd like to go over the safety features of this aircraft. It has an engine, to make us go, and wings, to keep us in the air. There are seatbelts, which won't do you an awful lot of good if we fly into the side of a mountain.

Derek Landy

Air, Wings, Safety

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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.

Mitt Romney

Stupid, Real, Fire

"Romney mocked for comment about jet windows" by Xiaonan Wang, articles.latimes.com. September 24, 2012.

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Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

Adolf Galland

Congratulations, Heart, Brave

Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Powerful, Gun, Ideas

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Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

Paul Martin

Stars, Distance, Night

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You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a person says 'will I be participating in the new world?' Only in areas that you can participate it. Areas that you have competence in. I'm not talking about self confidence, I'm talking about the ability to solve problems. Electrical, chemical, technical. I don't know of any other kind of problem.

Jacque Fresco

Self Confidence, Talking, Agriculture

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

Adolf Galland

Balance, Twelve, Unbelievable

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Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

Alexander Haig

Israel, Soldier, Doe

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The U.S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and sophistication than the rest of the world combined. Included are twenty commissioned Trident II nuclear submarines any one of which could destroy Europe.

Ramsey Clark

Europe, Numbers, Nuclear

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