Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you get the radar beam close to the ground, you just see snow, you don't see individual targets. All of the radar was basically designed to look at aircraft in the air. They never really thought that much about ground tracking.

When you live in the second largest city in the country, there is going to be a lot of aircraft and people have to understand that. Cities are noisy places, whether it's noise coming from the ground or in the air. I have helicopters flying over my home but that is the price I pay for living in the Hollywood Hills. That is the price I pay for living in Los Angeles.

This requirement will be met by airplanes in the 200- to 400-seat capacity category, with relatively few very large aircraft being needed.

When Concorde went out of service the business aircraft operators and the airlines thought: we will find a market niche here and we are going to exploit it,

We're not just looking to reduce the noise an aircraft makes but also to change the way it's flown to produce significant noise savings.

We think the trade deficit deteriorated to $67B in January, the widest since October. Petroleum imports likely rose by over $1B due to higher prices - up 6.4%. In real terms, imports were probably close to unchanged. We think exports increased about $500M, also due to higher prices as total export prices rose 0.7%. Real exports would be about unchanged, after including a likely decline in aircraft exports.

We think the drinking water on aircraft is safe to drink and has been.

We combine all the revenue that those aircraft generate and then we share the revenue based on how much capacity each of us has contributed to that model.

Richard Smith

When people are driving down the interstate, they are going to see this simulated airport, which is the museum, and they are going to see aircraft sitting 100 yards off the freeway.

Jim Hall

We will devote all the necessary resources to determine what caused this aircraft to crash, ... We are beginning what may be a long investigation, and we are prepared to do what it takes to find the answers to the questions we are seeking.

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.

Joe Walker

With a three-quarter-billion-dollar order backlog and the first of many A500 deliveries last year, we now look forward to Craig providing his production experience to quickly ramp up deliveries to six aircraft per month to meet this strong customer demand.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

George Gray

We know there's plenty of demand, not only in Wichita, but all over the country for these folks, ... We recently visited in Little Rock, Ark., where there are several companies there needing cabinet makers for their aircraft as well.

Jim Hall

will devote all the necessary resources to determine what caused this aircraft to crash.

We had flown Shark21 mostly up to that point so both the aircraft would be available for the Prime Minister's flight (on February 2),

We have a fleet of aircraft that all have customers. Every single aircraft has a contract.

We've got some people on the way down there tomorrow. And we'll continue to work hard both here and in Washington. And it appears also the Chinese have lost an aircraft and we're sorry that occurred.

We'll wait until their investigation is over to do our own evaluation on the aircraft and the packages on board.

We can accommodate all of the corporate jets out there. The market for an airport like this is the commercial passenger planes, commercial freight and also general aviation - usually piston-engine aircraft and jet traffic. We also have several military contracts with (United States) Customs, (the Department of) Homeland Security and all branches of the armed services.

Olympia Snowe

We have not heard, clearly, what they intend to do, ... I hope the commission makes it clear what this new status is in terms of aircraft and staffing.

Bruce Chen

We haven't decided on the aircraft type or the amount. We're studying every aspect of the issue.

Philip Greenspun

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.

We know that the aircraft broke into several pieces and there was a fire at the rear part of the aircraft,

We'll do a complete inspection of the aircraft now and we'll report our findings to the FAA.

Unfortunately, they had to turn back due to inclement weather. They're now waiting for the next weather opportunity to get out to the aircraft and we hope that in the next few days, that opportunity will arise.

Mike Brown

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We are putting in as many aircraft as we can, but as fast as we open up seats, the faster they get booked. I have never seen anything like this. We couldn't be happier.

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.

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.