Aviation Quotes - Page 32

• If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  War, Air, Ifs

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• If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Air Power, Rockets

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• The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when they are taking off, or when they are climbing, or when they are forming up. Don't think you can defend the bomber by circling around him. It's good for the bombers morale, and bad for tactics.

  Robin Olds

  Thinking, Climbing, Enemy

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• Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Air, Soldier

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• Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.

  Adolf Galland

  Enemy, Air Power, Inferiority

  "The First and the Last". Book by Adolf Galland, 1954.

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• In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

  Giulio Douhet

  Military, War, Air

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.51, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Blow, Air, Target

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• The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Victory, Air Power

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated”

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• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Air, Brain, Enemy

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• To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Suicide, Suicidal, Enemy

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• Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Communication, Air

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• The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.

  Erich Hartmann

  Men, Sitting, Air Power

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• "He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

  Adolf Galland

  Defense, Fundamentals, Air Power

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The First and the Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938-1954”

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• If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Fighting, Should Have, Air Power

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• Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the water in the first place is the element of risk.

  Harold Payson

  Numbers, Safety, Water

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• We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents."

  Federico Pena

  Safety, Mind, Trying

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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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