Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

While the aircraft were flying near each other, one of the aircraft turned and made contact with the other aircraft. That aircraft (the one that was turning) in turn is the aircraft that crashed in the Watertown area.

We continue to see high demand for international cargo capacity and we want to ensure that we have the aircraft to meet that demand long-term.

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?

Eric Christian Olsen

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.

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.

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,

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

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're the ones who know what the bill ought to be for your electricity. We've helped people with adoptions. We can help you with your aircraft strategy. People say, 'Do I buy? Do I lease? Do I charter? Do I just ride first class?' We can do analysis on that.

Today we've sent AWACS aircraft and patriot missiles and chem-bio defensive equipment to Turkey, another ally in trouble, under threat, asking for help, ... That's what the alliance of free nations is all about.

While this is the largest monthly decline in nearly five years, the fall is entirely attributable to civilian aircraft, as non-defense aircraft orders returned to a normal pace, after a stunningly strong December.

Service between New York and Washington, D.C. is something we're looking at very closely, but right now we're deploying our aircraft to cities we feel are under-served and over-priced -- and there are quite a few cities in that category, including Washington, D.C.

At this time, we don't really have the aircraft we would need to even consider it.

Not only are these aircraft important in sustaining near-term production rates, this buy also reaffirms the commitment to the F-16 by our number one customer in continuing modernization of the USAF multi-role fighter force,

David Williams

It's not a matter of how fast that they work on it. It's a matter of the precision that they use and the precision tools that they work. And there is a productivity requirement because the soldiers up front are waiting for the soldiers to return, whether for Medivac aircraft or fire power support,