Famous Quotes & Sayings

The headline is all about Boeing, which reported 200 new aircraft orders in May, up from 14 in April. Unusually, it seems that nearly all these orders have hit the official data immediately. Apart from this, however, these are soft data. Ex-transportation orders fell 0.2% and there was a downward revision to April, now put at -0.7%.

The higher the oil price, the greater the demand for more fuel-efficient aircraft. We should encourage airlines to buy new aircraft to replace those which are 15 or 20 years old.

The UK has allowed these aircraft to land, refuel and take off from their territory.

Giovanni Bisignani

Airline ownership restrictions became national rights. Now the flags on our aircraft are so heavy they are sinking the industry.

Aircraft leasing is not a business that fits with our strategy.

Aircraft is responsible for a lot of that decline. My suspicion is that the manufacturing sector will ease up, but the manufacturing recovery is still in place.

Aircraft flying overhead that will be one indication that things will change.

Aircraft do have landing gear problems. What is extremely rare is when you have television cameras aimed at the plane ... there were a lot of people in our office that were really stunned about how perfect that landing looked.

Airbus has made a substantial commitment within the United States, where we procure more than 46 percent of our aircraft parts and systems, and where we already have four other centers of excellence. This engineering center is further representation of that commitment.

And there's nothing I can do physically from my aircraft -- even though I'm 50 to 100 feet away -- to help them at all.

Are we going to say that we will prevent people from going to where the aircraft are, as they have done in Los Angeles? These are the things that will form part of our analysis and we will make a proper recommendation.

a qualified mechanic was dispatched to the aircraft and conducted an inspection of the entire wing, finding no evidence of a fuel leak.

Any individual who touches a Northwest aircraft will be fully trained in the Northwest maintenance program. Some were furloughed from other airlines. Some are from vendors that already work on Northwest equipment. ... We recruited from a rather large pool the best we could get. They're certainly not off the street.

Raytheon Aircraft is proud of the success of the T-6A. The program has matured into the best flying training system in the world.

Probably one of the most difficult moments of my life was the 11 minutes from the point I watched that aircraft when we first lost communications to the point that aircraft hit the World Trade Center." ()

No significant environmental impact is expected. These aircraft are smaller and quieter. They will be using existing training ranges and flying spaces.

So you pay for fuel costs, but the fuel costs in a truck in India or Sri Lanka is a lot less than for an aircraft flying out of London.

Mark Johnson

Once we get all the aircraft relocated from hangar No. 5 into the new one, we'll start dismantling No. 5 and put it up in a new location. Then, we'll move aircraft from No. 4 to No. 5, in its new location, and so on. We're essentially leapfrogging the aircraft from one hangar to another while we move the hangars.

They have their own ZIP code. They fly multiple aircraft out of Springfield-Branson National Airport every day with catalog-ordered merchandise.

There's a tremendous crunch on the way. Every aircraft now in production is under threat.

There is trauma on the body. It is consistent with an aircraft crash.

A subsequent search of the private aircraft and records checks of the two individuals revealed there were no outstanding warrants or illegal contraband on board the aircraft.

As new aircraft programs are introduced and upgrades are made to existing fleets in the coming years, we expect to see strong demand for simulated maintenance trainers.

Although there are precedents for both pilots losing consciousness at the controls of aircraft in the past, for it to happen on a large airliner like a Boeing 737, with all the backup systems they have there, does seem to be really quite extraordinary.

A maintenance facility in India will be very useful for local carriers. If you have a local center, the cost of sending aircraft outside for major checks, which is considerable, can be saved.

Bobby Miller

The U.S. should print on its money, "In Guns We Trust" and use pictures of aircraft carriers, F-16 and tanks instead of politicians. But that would undermine the very foundation that hypocrisy stands on.

The way the aircraft is different from other aircraft requires a specific check ride in that make and model of aircraft.

This depiction of flight attendants is an outrage, ... Flight attendants continue to be the first line of defense on an aircraft and put their lives on the line day after day for the safety of passengers.

This coming January, we will deliver the first A330 aircraft to China Eastern Airlines, which will help to further increase its operational flexibility, especially on international and regional long-haul routes.

This evening we'll put all aircraft up in the air.

This aircraft signifies many rescues. Many men were saved because this aircraft was able to get to them.

Mark Russell

This aircraft self protection security system warns of potential close proximity threats to aircraft parked on the ground.

this aircraft means a lot, being in here, not just because it was the aircraft I got shot up in, in Vietnam, but because it is the aircraft we used in Vietnam.