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 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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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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

  Chuck Yeager

  Military, Saws, Firsts

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable, but there's a different kind of value - and a competitive edge - in processing ongoing streams of data through a software model that can quickly and constantly make predictions about, say, whether a certain customer is going to defect, or an aircraft is going to run into trouble.

  Kevin Maney

  Running, Data, Six Months

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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.

  Simon Sinek

  Names, Giving, Car

  "Teamwork: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

  Bruce Sterling

  D Day, Literature, Berlin

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• Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

  Robbie Williams

  Blow, Drug, Judgement

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

  Dean Acheson

  Military, Self, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

  James Dyson

  Car, Design, Racing

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• I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Jobs, Pilots, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Winston Churchill

  Air, Enemy, Defense

  "The World Crisis". Volume I,

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• The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also possess this technology. Many more nations are seeking it, and more will succeed in acquiring it.

  John O. Brennan

  Technology, Firsts, Succeed

  "The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy". Remarks by John O. Brennan at the Wilson Center, www.wilsoncenter.org. April 30, 2012.

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• In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives - the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qa'ida terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones.

  John O. Brennan

  Order, Law, Government

  "The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy". Remarks by John O. Brennan at the Wilson Center, www.wilsoncenter.org. April 30, 2012.

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• We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

  Douglas Bader

  Flying, Enemy, Cohesion

  Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.19, Pen and Sword

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