Famous Quotes & Sayings

The noise level we're looking for would be to take it below the background noise that people experience outside airports ... below traffic noise levels, ... Silent Aircraft Initiative.

The objective of these observations is to contribute towards the safety, regularity and efficiency of aircraft operations during takeoff and landing.

That's real aviation. You don't even need an aircraft to fly. I feel there are a lot of things to discover in life.

The airlines would seem to make sure that they could employ these larger aircraft in all the different locations they fly to from here.

Tony Blair

targeted and measured response to the dramatic increase in attacks on coalition aircraft in January.

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,

Josh Smith

It's really quite easy and a no-brainer. It's a low-cost way to provide aircraft security.

It is truly amazing to see how these men and women get together, ... No kidding -- when the support aircraft hit the ground -- they scatter and then 10 minutes before the jets arrive everyone is back in place and everything is done. It is an amazing process to watch.

It's more difficult than ever to liquidate an airline. You have so many lenders of last resort who want to keep aircraft prices high.

For Hughes Aircraft to remain competitive in a shrinking market, there was a need to increase its participation in the industry consolidation. Raytheon together with Hughes will create a much more competitive company.

For eight minutes we played without our aircraft carrier, that's resolve right there. I don't know if we could have done that earlier in the year.

That is a big and complex code. If you take problems like finding the optimal shape for common automotive and aircraft structures, you have to somehow find the shape that has the least weight but at the same time won't break. We call that process shape optimization or topology optimization. These shapes have holes in them for bolting them in place or to reduce their weight. You have to decide whether to have one hole or two holes or 10 holes in a part, exactly where to put those holes and how to shape the holes.

That means an aircraft operators use of air traffic control resources determines the amount owed to the FAA, whether the aircraft is carrying three or thirty or three-hundred passengers.

It's not a significant impact on numbers. It wasn't in Boeing's plan. The bottom line is there's a glut of aircraft worldwide, even if traffic recovers domestically to pre Sept. 11 levels, it's going to take significant numbers for a recovery.

It's not a significant impact on numbers. It wasn't in Boeing's plan, ... The bottom line is there's a glut of aircraft worldwide, even if traffic recovers domestically to pre Sept. 11 levels, it's going to take significant numbers for a recovery.

Eclipse, a U.S. company, has come out with the (smaller) Eclipse 500. There are huge orders booked for these aircraft and they think they are going to be the next big thing.

Each pilot will go to the simulator once a year. If the FAA feels that they want to have the aircraft require a type rating, I would support that.

Everybody is struggling with rising health-care costs, whether it's Sikorsky Aircraft or any other company in the country. We're simply not immune to that. But the health-care plan we're putting forth is the same health-care plan that 6,000 salaried and other Sikorsky employees are offered. It's a good health-care plan.

This marks another significant milestone for the F-16 Fighting Falcon the most sought after fighter in history. With 4,300 aircraft in total delivered to 24 countries, the F-16 is the only international aircraft program that can claim more than 50 follow-on buys by 14 repeat customers, each who have relied on the Fighting Falcon as a key component of their national defense and fighter force structure.

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.

If you look at the growth in Chinese travel, the predictions of 2,600 aircraft over 20 years is reasonable. It's not just growth, it's replacement.

In the vast majority of cases, personal use of corporate aircraft is an invalid use of shareholders' money. If we're going to pay them more, I'd rather see it related to performance.

In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

In that capacity he was in charge of all 36 pilots and all 36 or so aircraft in Alaska.

Richard Keen

In my submissions, it has not been established by coherent, reliable or compelling evidence that (Fahima) was party to any plot to destroy a civil aircraft and murder its occupants,

In accordance with our FAA approved manuals and procedures, the aircraft was subsequently dispatched. At no time was the safety of our passengers placed at risk.

However, the jump in new orders was too narrowly concentrated in civilian aircraft and defense orders to offer much more than modest encouragement. Although the worst may be over for the manufacturing sector, any recovery is likely to be sluggish.

By declaring pre-emptive bushfire emergencies, all local areas will be in the highest state of readiness and will be able to deploy firefighters, tankers and aircraft immediately.

Charles Lindbergh

But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

James Hansen

If there's one place that I could put my finger on and say what's the No. 1 place that if a rogue aircraft came in and you had trouble it would really have a huge amount of trouble, it would have to be Houston, Texas. Boy, that could just bring America to its knees, almost.

I hope one day that China's pilots will fly the skies in jumbo aircraft manufactured by their own country.