Famous Quotes & Sayings

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).

Robert Englund

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.

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.

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

Manmohan Singh

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

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.

Edgar Mitchell

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.

The expected drop in aircraft orders is strictly month-to- month noise and does not have any impact on the outlook for growth.

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

George Miller

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..

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.

I think the main concern was with the aircraft frame.

Marion Blakey

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?

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.

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.

Shane Osborn

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.

George Miller

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.

Bruce Smith

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 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.

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