Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Geoff Hoon

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,

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.

Donald Rumsfeld

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.

Tyler Cowen

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

Nevil Shute

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.

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.

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.

Marion Blakey

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

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.

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.

Steve Williams

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

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.

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

Irene Khan

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

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.

David Small

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.