Aviation Quotes - Page 26

• Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Stars, Future, Men

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• One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

  Beryl Markham

  Stars, Future, Men

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

  Carrying On, Predictions, Fortune

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• A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

  James Lighthill

  Friendly, Pairs, Predictions

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• There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

  Daniel Goldin

  Travel, Future, Air

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• Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have become the weakest component in a wide array of systems and processes. Humans and machines will need to become far more closely coupled, through improved human-machine interfaces and by direct augmentation of human performance

  Werner J. A. Dahm

  Machines, Today, Tasks

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• Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Night, Another Day, Flight

  "Solar-powered plane lands safely after 26-hour flight". www.bbc.com. July 8, 2010.

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

  Erik Lindbergh

  Two, Training, Firsts

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• We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles an hour orbitally.

  Richard Branson

  New York, Space, Tokyo

  "Richard Branson Wants To Build A Plane That Can Go From New York To Tokyo In 'Less Than An Hour'" by Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. May 6, 2014.

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• The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Suicide, Hate, Views

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• It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France.

  Christian Blanc

  Fighting, Air, Groups

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• First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors. . . . What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world.

  Claude Grahame-White

  Doors, Europe, Together

  Claude Grahame-White, Harry Harper (1915). “The aeroplane”

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

  William Bushnell Stout

  Airline, Vehicle, Aircraft

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• The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

  Robert Crandall

  Christian, Games, Lions

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• Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.

  Ed Acker

  Dope, Airline Business, Hooked

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• These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

  C. R. Smith

  Airline Business, Making Money, Hell

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• A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

  Adam Thomson

  Airline Business, Lost, Belts

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• You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying.

  Inglis M. Uppercu

  Flying, Nickels, Airline

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• If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

  Herb Kelleher

  Brother, Humorous, Fire

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• The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

  Warren Buffett

  Brother, Thinking, Growth

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• Running an airline is like having a baby: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.

  Collett E. Woolman

  Running, Baby, Fun

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• I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express.

  Richard Branson

  Two, People, Trying

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• Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.

  Gordon Bethune

  Believe, Successful, Odds

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• In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

  Richard Branson

  Feelings, Kind, Spending Time

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• I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely ... all of them are losers. Most of these guys are smoking ragweed.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Thinking, Smoking

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