Aircraft Quotes - Page 7

• Osama bin laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that's probably cost almost nothing.

  Richard Engel

  New York, Guy, United States

  "Richard 'War of Fear' Engel Tells Jay Leno: 'End the Global War on Terrorism'". www.newsbusters.org. June 23, 2011.

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• The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.

  Hermann Goring

  Mean, Fancy Cars, Investing

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• I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

  Norman Foster

  Design, Sketching, Firsts

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• Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.

  Norman Foster

  I've Learned, Building, Something New

  "Norman Foster at 75: Norman's conquests". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2010.

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• Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.

  George Reisman

  Dark, Intelligent, Space

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• When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Brother, Silly, Innovation

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• Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

  James L. Farmer, Jr.

  Years, Cinema, San Diego

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• The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.

  B. C. Forbes

  Photography, Moving, Thinking

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• You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Military, Land

  Barack Obama's remarks in the Third Presidential Debate at the Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 23, 2012.

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• In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier.

  Tina Fey

  Home, Iraq, President

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• Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

  Joseph Stalin

  Army, Air, Needs

  "Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941 - 1945" by Von Hardesty, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, (p. 170), 1982.

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• Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then repeat the process. I never pursued the enemy once they had eluded me. Better to break off and set up again for a new assault. I always began my attacks from full strength, if possible, my ideal flying height being 22,000 ft because at that altitude I could best utilize the performance of my aircraft. Combat flying is based on the slashing attack and rough maneuvering.

  Erich Hartmann

  Break Off, Flying, Enemy

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• What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi regime not shooting at UK and US aircraft almost every day? What is the value of the Iraqis having a free press? What is the value of the foreign minister of Iraq going to Paris, calling for an end of the Gadhafi regime and citing Iraq as a model, as an example, that in fact a freer political system can exist in that part of the world?

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Iraq, Paris, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are very grateful for the vital contributions Germany has made to this fight, training local forces in Iraq, sharing intelligence providing reconnaissance aircraft including the recent deployment of additional NATO AWACS.

  Barack Obama

  Grateful, Fighting, Iraq

  Source: time.com

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

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Trying, Aircraft Carriers

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation have been used for war. For example, video was created after the Second World War in order to radio-control planes and aircraft carriers. Thus video came with the war. It took twenty years before it became a means of expression for artists.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Military, Moving

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Electric Power, Oil

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The Americans made the decision out of principle to buy Russian equipment for us because our pilots and mechanics were trained on Russian aircraft. But, then, as a result of the Ukraine crisis, the US Congress imposed sanctions on Russia and the equipment could no longer be delivered to us. I am proud of our security and defense forces.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Russia, Ukraine, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I know something about aircraft carriers for real.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Aircraft Carriers, Knows

  "The people versus the powerful" by Philip James, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2004.

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• The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moon, People, Together

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye's function being the function of a weapon.

  Paul Virilio

  Eye, Balloons, Weapons

  Paul Virilio (1989). “War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception”, p.3, Verso

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• Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

  Abdus Salam

  Training, Doe, Nuclear Reactors

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

  Connie Kalitta

  Hobbies, Used

  Source: blog.caranddriver.com

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• We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground. It will allow the moderate opposition to be able to neutralize the helicopters and aircraft that are dropping chemicals and have been carpet-bombing them, just like surface-to-air missiles in Afghanistan were able to change the balance of power there.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Believe, Air, Balance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• No one except for al-Assad's army is fighting against ISIS or other terrorist organisations in Syria, no one else is fighting them on Syrian territory. Minor airstrikes, including those by the United States aircraft, do not resolve the issue in essence; in fact, they do not resolve it at all.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Army, Isis

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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