Aircraft Quotations

Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.

UTC Aerospace Systems has a couple of million dollars of content on every single aircraft that gets delivered. That's the chutes, the electric system, rotors, etc.

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that they demonstrate they can evacuate an aircraft within 90 seconds, but of course, a lot of stuff that is easy to do in training turns out to be tough in practice.

More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology.

There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

The other test aircraft already had the system, so we decided we should install it on the other one.

The possibility of friendly fire, I say the possibility, did not come from the air. It was not about bombs. So we are now investigating where this possible friendly fire came from, but it was not from an aircraft of any type.

We appear to be heading out of BRACC with quite a few more aircraft and people that we had heading into it. If approved by the president and Congress, this can only be viewed as an expansion of the missions to be conducted out of the new joint base in the future.

We are prepared to charter additional aircraft and rebook passengers on other airlines. For the moment we will continue to operate normally and take bookings on future flights,

We are aware of reports that the aircraft may have been shot down, but we are not in a position to come to any conclusions until the investigation is complete,

There is no question that the effectiveness of the bombing is vastly improved as you have people on the ground in communication with the aircraft overhead, ... We now have some larger number of teams of people on the ground ... and the effectiveness of bombing is improving every day.

Was the second accused aware that there was an intention to use an explosive device for the destruction of a civil aircraft and the murder of its occupants?

We responded to the hurricanes with between 200 and 250 medical, security and logistic support personnel as well as aircraft from the Army and Air Guard sides. This was huge for us because it came two weeks after the BRAC decided to take us off the base closure list, which would have taken the C-130s used to help following Katrina.

Unless it was going to impact on when the aircraft was going to be available ... then I wouldn't expect to be told about it,

We're moving an aircraft carrier from the Caribbean to Gibraltar and we're putting a number of fighter and bomber aircraft on 48 hours notice, if the need should arise.

We face a complex logistical challenge with at least 100 aircraft and 1,000 flying crew out of position. As a result, it will take some time to return to a normal flying program. We recognize how frustrating this must be, but we are working as hard as we can to get customers away on their holidays.

We experienced a job slowdown, causing a high number of aircraft to be out of service.

We feel that we're in a good position, that this will make us a stronger airline, ... We'll be able to clean up our financial status with regard to balance sheets and aircraft that are too expensive to fly, and emerge as a stronger, more viable competitor on the East Coast, where most of our flights are operating.

We feel that passenger use of portable electronic devices on aircraft should continue to be limited for the safety of all concerned.

With these aircraft they will fly up into the remote regions that have been most devastated by the recent disaster.

Ultimately, it will help pilots with navigation and allow them to space their aircraft on their own; call up the most complete and accurate long-range weather maps; warn of potential collisions on the ground; push the maintenance logbook into the digital age, and place the entire flight manual within easy electronic recall.

We've got everything, from vintage aircraft all the way to the most current aircraft available.

We have no indication at all that our aircraft were involved in that incident.

What we know is there were more than 40 people on board, that the aircraft crashed in an uninhabited area.

The onus is on (aviation) companies to ensure that they are aware of the end use of any aircraft they lease or operate.

The FAA is maintaining safety by determining that aircraft are properly equipped and authorized before they're allowed to fly at these high altitudes,

We very much regret having to reduce our schedule to allow for the late delivery of new aircraft from Boeing (BA) and the planned retirement of our older 737-200's in December.

When the size of the aircraft orders is so big, the economics of the engine prices being offered by GE would've been a key factor in determining the orders.

The plane is so destroyed there's really not much left to be able to see or to determine exactly what kind of aircraft it was. It's just a horrible sight.

There are times you're not going to have aircraft available because of limited funding or lack of crews,

Last year's boom in aircraft orders, which reached record levels, suggests that a cyclical bust is not far behind.

She told me the aircraft was not coming back, to watch what we said, to be very careful to whom we spoke and not to trust anyone.

Simplicity is the key. It is a marvelous thing to have crews that can fly on any airplane at any time, and to have a maintenance department work on a single aircraft type.

Since the order books at Boeing are bulging at the moment, with many of those orders coming from abroad, aircraft exports could continue to be a big positive for the trade deficit for some time to come.

Singapore is an important airline. It's really the gateway to aircraft sales in Asia. But at end of the day, one company with 10 aircraft is not going to make or break any program.

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.

Most airlines will take the wine on board the aircraft and taste it, because red wine in particular can taste quite different when drunk in-flight compared to on the ground.

Morgan Stanley has tremendous strengths as a global financial services firm, but it is clear that our current level of profitability is unacceptable and we need to improve our performance, ... Our overriding goal for Morgan Stanley is to be the clear leader in offering premier, innovative financial services to our clients, while delivering superior returns to our shareholders. The decisions to keep Discover, divest the aircraft leasing business and strengthen our retail business are our first steps toward achieving that goal.

If we elevate security without addressing the industry's liquidity, there will be no aircraft for the public to board,

If we can make it work -- fine. But we also have a problem with aircraft (being able to fly the route).

I am convinced that before the end of this decade, we will see preparations for China to build its first indigenous aircraft carrier.

I am happy to announce that our government has cleared the purchase of 43 aircraft from Airbus.

Because we don't have the financial position to buy new aircraft or (hire) more people, we have to get more assets from our other locations. Long Beach happens to be one of our lower-performing markets. It's a marginal route.

China will purchase more than 100 aircraft each year in the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10).

From a customer perspective, these flights will be like all other Qantas international services. They will have Qantas flight numbers, aircraft will be branded in Qantas livery and crew in Qantas uniforms will provide Qantas in-flight product.

From 7 a.m. to noon, no aircraft landed. We were down to 400 feet visibility and no can take off or land in that.

From what we have been able to get through communications with the Hercules aircraft and the crew, it seems like it was possibly an electrical life on board.

From the U.S. side, having their different types of aircraft at our disposal certainly benefits us, ... It relieves some of the stress on the other aircraft. Having the Mirages there also provides a different skill set.

Given the weather conditions and the formidable terrain in Alaska, the safe landing of the aircraft without injury to the crew was a remarkable display of airmanship on the part of the pilot.

If it weren't for him and the actions of his crew, there's a good chance I and the other crewmen from the aircraft would not be here today,

If the aircraft went into depressurization very quickly, you only have a few seconds before you lose consciousness, because you don't have any air to breathe at that altitude.

If the aircraft lost cabin pressure, either in the cockpit or the cabin, effectively everybody would be doomed within a short space of time.

He was very intelligent. He was a good looking man. He was very fastidious, had a lot of friends, was a hard worker. He was a cadet navigator with the ambition of being an aircraft designer.

He would come up, close, ... The third time his closure rate was too far. He attempted to turn and pitch up, but his vertical stabilizer impacted my number one propeller, basically pretty much tearing his aircraft apart.

He would be getting a cold feeling down his spine, ... As defense minister he will know the real truth that he is hiding from people. And he will know that in a month NATO has only lost one plane, and he will despair at the freedom that NATO aircraft roam the skies destroying his military at will, during the day as well as at night.

He flew the aircraft all the way to the ground. He did what he was supposed to do, from what we can tell. Unfortunately, it wasn't his day.

We're proposing to increase the level of aircraft safety by reducing the potentially explosive ingredient of flammable fuel vapors.

When he was putting equipment up to the aircraft, in preparation of moving baggage, he contacted the aircraft improperly, and just kind of creased it.

What I like about (the center) is, if you pick any subject, say drug interdiction, (you can ask) is the nation better served or would the Coast Guard be better served to have ships or rotary winged aircraft or fixed wing aircraft or something else?

Having started with only two Airbus A320 aircraft in September last year, Tiger Airways has grown and will continue to grow as one of the world's leading low-fare airlines.

Having already gone through a bad aircraft choice once, the Army wants to make absolutely certain that this time it picks the right aircraft.

His speech at the Boeing aircraft plant has delivered a very important message to the American people. The Chinese Government and enterprises are very sincere about business co-operation with the United States .

There are no plans at this stage to stop flights coming in but the situation is very uncertain. We have several aircraft scheduled for this week to bring in food for tens of thousands of people.

There are numerous international and US P-3 customers that will require P-3 life extension kits to sustain their aircraft. The production of the outer wing is a critical part of life extension that will provide an additional 20 years of service life. The kit also includes the centre wing lower surface, horizontal stabilizer, wing and horizontal stabilizer leading edges, and filet fairings. The kit incorporates design enhancements and new materials with increased corrosion resistance that will provide P-3 operators an additional 15,000 hours of service life with significantly reduced maintenance costs, reduced down time and increased aircraft availability.

Just picture the Eiffel Tower on its side and trying to maneuver it around an aircraft carrier with little room to spare.

Jim Vincent, when he had this problem, was near our building, and there were other people on the ground, and he did everything he could to get the aircraft away from the building and crash it where it crashed so that he wouldn't hurt anybody.

I talked to Robert Helm, one of their waterfowl biologists, and he said they are not planning for anything. They are going to have their teal season, but they are going to cancel their teal season survey because all of their aircraft are tied up on more important things.

It appears that the westbound aircraft apparently saw the other aircraft at the last moment, tried to avoid the collision, but unfortunately that didn't work.

It appeared the aircraft was not deviating from its course and was approaching downtown D.C..

I think the main concern was with the aircraft frame.

I think this is mostly our responsibility, ... but also it's something that we might require as standard operating equipment on new, large aircraft that would be at risk.

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

JASSM will provide the Royal Australian Air Force with a system that dramatically improves the pilot's ability to strike both land and maritime targets from long range. This is important because it keeps Australian aircraft and aircrews safely out of range of air defense systems, while allowing them to successfully engage and destroy a wide range of critical targets, including highly defended point targets.

I saw it climbing up in the air. It was making a steep climb that you usually don't see aircraft do like that. And just as I was wondering why was he making such a steep climb up then the plane sort of flattened out and took a nose dive straight down until it hit the ground.

Our inbound aircraft area carrying extra fuel to that we do not have to refuel all our aircraft at Heathrow.

Our priorities remain meeting our commitments, especially aircraft and spare parts to the U.S. military to support all their efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Our forecast was undone by two factors. The impact of the post-Katrina spike in oil prices is lingering; it will eventually fade. Second, trade in goods ex-oil and aircraft -- core -- deteriorated again.

Our goal is to put an aircraft to respond anywhere in the impact area within 20 minutes. Either a rotary wing or fixed wing aircraft. We're set. We're positioned.

Our first and gravest priority is simply to ensure that no other Marine is asked to give his life until this aircraft is safe and until it is determined to be ready for the Marine Corps' mission,

Overall sales and earnings growth were below our expectations, reflecting performance issues as well as delays of commercial space launches and military aircraft deliveries from 1998 into 1999.

Picture perfect. Part Spider-Man, part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan. The President seized the moment on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.

Passengers are the foundation of air travel and, in a competitive market, the airlines will continue meeting passengers' demands for more direct nonstop flights to destinations around the world with longer-range, efficient and comfortable airplanes. This requirement will be met by airplanes in the 200-to-400-seat capacity category, with relatively few very-large aircraft being needed.

Passengers are now free to bring weapons back on board aircraft in the form of scissors.

People make parallels between this and the Gulf War, but 9/11 was extremely dramatic because it was the first time commercial aircraft were used as weapons of war. It undermined the absolute heart of the business.

People of the ancient might not yet familiar and had no references at all with aircraft technology and propulsion system as we have today. Therefore, if they saw something strange and flying in the sky, sometimes they called it as chariots of fire, or wheel upon the earth, or by some words which came out of their minds and mouths spontaneously.

Staying competitive means delivering more than our competitors in all areas of aircraft development.

That could have crippled the airport right at Christmas. Aircraft could have landed with a 1,300 foot-ceiling and then not been able to take off.

My people have a lot of money invested in land and aircraft they can't use because of his antics.

Long-lead suppliers are doing work on that 180th aircraft and in some cases have completed work.

Looking forward, the revenue picture is expected to continue to strengthen as we increase capacity in North America with new large regional aircraft deliveries.