Aviation Quotes - Page 29

• Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Giving Up, Air

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• The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

  Michael O'Leary

  Liars, Airline Business, Three

  "Business Focus: Into the unknown". www.thetimes.co.uk. November 20, 2005.

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• Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy is so freely used to-day, so atomic energy may bring interplantary travel within easy reach to-morrow.

  P. E. Cleator

  Future, Energy, Use

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• Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

  Cecil Beaton

  Mean, Reality, Airline Business

  Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

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• For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Dream, Stars

  Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

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• Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

  Alan Shepard

  Airplane, Roger, Clock

  Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton (2011). “Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings”, p.130, Open Road Media

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• The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

  Jim Lovell

  Airplane, Moon, Color

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• Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.

  William Anders

  Airplane, Kids, Long

  Transcript of Apollo 8 Flight Journal, history.nasa.gov. December 24, 1968.

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• I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute.

  Neil Armstrong

  Airplane, Busy, Minutes

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.

  Robert Crippen

  Airplane, Eight, Sitting Still

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• This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

  Robert Crippen

  Airplane, Spaceships, Performing

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• I am with the angels and just completely happy.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Airplane, Angel

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• The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Airplane, Done, Way

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• It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle.

  Jacques Rosay

  Airplane, Perfect, Handle

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• Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring.

  Fernando Alonso

  Airplane, Successful, Littles

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• Air power may either end war or end civilization.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, War, Air

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.

  Tom Gross

  Successful, Safety, Flying

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• Highly complementary airline alliances and mergers can bring important benefits to passengers by connecting networks, offering new services and generating efficiencies across the aviation value chain. However, this has to take place within a competitive environment. It is vital that the economic benefits of an airline alliance or merger are passed on to passengers.

  Neelie Kroes

  Offering, Important, Alliances

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• The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.

  Neelie Kroes

  Agreement, Cooperation, Framework

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• Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.

  Phil Boyer

  Honor, Way, Fiction

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• Fly it like you stole it!

  Bill Stein

  Like You

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• Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.

  Albert Scott Crossfield

  Pilots, Sometimes, Accidents

  Albert Scott Crossfield (2015). “Always Another Dawn: The Story Of A Rocket Test Pilot”, p.109, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.

  Brian R. Norris

  Nice, Drinking, Airplane

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• It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.

  Ralph Royce

  Airplane, Marconi

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• Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

  Richard Bach

  Lonely, Horse, Airplane

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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