Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 .

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Billy Mitchell

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

We do have aircraft in that area making drops, but with the coming of nightfall, we'll have to ground those shortly.

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.

The Raptor not only combines the capabilities of several legacy aircraft by delivering air dominance, lethal intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, but it does so without adversaries even knowing the aircraft is out there -- as proven this past year. As the world's only 5th Generation fighter aircraft in operation, it has overwhelming capability to ensure USAF air dominance for the next four decades.

This would mean a lot of business opportunities from this region for aircraft manufacturers in the coming years.

With the arrival of new, modern and fuel-efficient aircraft in our North American fleet, Air Canada is now able to implement significant network improvements that will benefit consumers with more point-to-point, non-stop flights and enhanced schedules.

With the aircraft on jacks, small excitation forces will be applied to the airframe. Measurements of the structural response for a range of excitation frequencies will be made using accelerometers.

We will have more or less 1,000 aircraft on stream very soon -- able to maintain a continuous operation to tighten the screw on Serb forces.

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.

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.