Aircraft Quotes - Page 4

• California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

  J. B. Priestley

  Philosophy, Character, Civilization

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• If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.

  Larry Walters

  Brother, Able, Hawks

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• If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Flower, Airplane, Men

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• If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible to do the same thing for motor vehicles, heating and air-conditioning systems or computers, etc. This project voices our conviction that a pioneering spirit with political vision can together change society and and reduce society's dependence on fossil energies.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Night, Air, Motor Vehicles

  "Solar-powered plane reaches new heights". CNN interview, edition.cnn.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Animal, Men

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

  Denis Healey

  People, Aviation, Used

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

  Willie Walsh

  Order, Aviation, Bigs

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• Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.

  Ernie Pyle

  War, Military, Believe

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• Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

  Nido R Qubein

  Light, Goal, Achievement

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

  Moira Johnston

  Years, Boredom, Directors

  Moira Johnston (2000). “The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America”, p.49, Beard Books

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• I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

  Mark Pryor

  Fighting, Wings, Teeth

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• What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How would the comment section on YouTube change if, to use it, you had to have the schooling necessary to have a basic understanding of how computers and the internet work? More seriously, would anyone smart enough to know how to design and build a tank, or a laser guided anti-aircraft missile, or a computer and video editing software be stupid enough to join ISIS? In fact, if such knowledge was required—would it even be possible for there to be standing armies?

  John C. Wright

  Stupid, Smart, Silly

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• America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

  Robin Sloan

  America, Google, Defense

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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

  Jamie Dimon

  Risk, Opaque, Management

  "JPMorgan CEO Hits Back at Policymakers in Davos" by Yousef Gamal El-Din, Antonia van de Velde, www.cnbc.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

  Brené Brown

  Bridges, Perfection, Way

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.115, Penguin

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

  Amar Bose

  Military, Jet Engines, Design

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

  Niki Lauda

  Looks

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

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

  Leroy Chiao

  Flying

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• I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

  Henri Coanda

  Moving, Should Have, Land

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• During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.

  Norm Dicks

  Past, Government, Years

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• It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

  Dave Reichert

  Taken, Airplane, Overcoming

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• 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.

  Adolf Galland

  Three, Today, Driven

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• Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

  Albert Speer

  Normal, Opinion, Sickness

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• During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.

  Bo Gritz

  Team, Digging, Laos

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• These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.

  Norm Dicks

  Forgiveness, Government, Cost

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