Aviation Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?'

  Ernest K. Gann

  School, Thinking, After Hours

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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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• I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It you can't fix it, don't worry about it; accept it and do the best you can.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Philosophy, Simple, People

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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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• I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.

  Elrey Borge Jeppesen

  Sky, Done, Flight

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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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• Come back, come back, back to Jamaica
  Don't you know we made a big mistaika
  We would be so sad if you told us goodbye
  And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!

  Jimmy Buffett

  Goodbye, Jamaica, Sky

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• The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently.

  Emile Berliner

  Technology, Land, Doors

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• Buttons ... check. Dials ... check. Switches ... check. Little colored lights ... check.

  Bill Watterson

  Funny, Light, Buttons

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• Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then?

  Bill Watterson

  Funny, Leader, Roger

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• Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Funny, Airplane, Needs

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• This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, School, Mean

  "Dave Barry's Greatest Hits". Book by Dave Barry, 1988.

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• It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, therefore, that anyone who claims that he can fly must have sought the aid of the devil. To attempt to fly is therefore sinful.

  Roger Bacon

  Giving, Devil, Impossible

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• This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.

  Amy Johnson

  Book, Challenges, Flight

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• I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Average, Law, Lucky

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• My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

  John Milton

  Men, Air, Earth

  1634 Comus, A Mask, opening lines.

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• I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

  Elrey Borge Jeppesen

  Age, Flight, Preserves

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• What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

  Carl Sandburg

  Boys, Men, Ideas

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.582, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a feast ... I shall keep them forever. As stunning exciting proof that a proper mixture of science and art is not only possible but a blessed union.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Art, Blessed, Forever

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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