Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't know if it would have killed the A3XX, but it would have been a major blow. With the aircraft in its infancy, every order is important. For Boeing, losing the order is too bad, but it was not a must-win order.

It's a day of reckoning. Yesterday we saw huge amounts of aircraft coming in, so on this first day of the new phase of the emergency we have to make sure that everything is coordinated.

It is the 20th anniversary of the successful co-operation of Airbus with China's aviation industry, with the first Airbus aircraft delivered to China Eastern Airlines in 1985.

It's a good move for Airbus because we don't have enough space in Beijing now and China Eastern is the first operator of many Airbus aircraft types and has the largest fleet of A300, A310 and A340 aircraft in China.

It's a good environment for training exercises until large-bodied aircraft start controlling the airspace. That could be several years away at least.

It's very reasonable to say the aircraft will be tracked by Yugoslav early warning systems.

It's very popular with fractional aircraft owners and corporations.

Its weapon of choice for attacking villages is an anti- aircraft cannon. It has been the main organization responsible for the brutal killings and mass depopulation that's going on in Kosovo.

They brought more people on their planes, which shows that they continue to offer superior product and put their aircraft into places where business people want to fly.

They were set to lose all their aircraft and half of their personnel. The capabilities for the state that would have been lost if that decision had been made was just huge.

James Harris

They want to minimize the impact of aircraft being taken out of the market,

They want aircraft checked. It's a mechanical issue, they want to make sure the equipment is good.

They hear about a filing, they see an aircraft flying and they assume there's some value on the stock and that they're going to get it at a bargain.

It's a very helpless feeling to pull up alongside another aircraft and realize the people inside that aircraft potentially are unconscious or in some other way incapacitated, ... 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.

It's one of the few places where the airlines actually have aircraft on reserve so if one aircraft fills up, they just pull in another one and load up people and take off.

Shane Osborn

It's not very common for a big, slow-moving aircraft to ram into a high-performance jet fighter, ... And we definitely made a sharp left turn -- that was called uncontrolled flight -- inverted in a dive after he impacted my propeller and my nose.

It's not uncommon for aircraft to have problems with their landing gear. This isn't unique to this particular aircraft.

Vijay Mallya

For the first time, we will be able to offer direct non-stop services between India and the USA and these aircraft will have a unique configuration giving passengers extra space and comfort on their long flights,

Fort Dix and McGuire have evolved with more personnel and more aircraft than I expected, ... If you would have told me four months ago that we would have 30-plus more aircraft, newer jet tankers and 1,000 to 2,000 more positions, I would have responded that it was too optimistic, but it does appear that is what's in store for McGuire and Dix under the new joint-base plan.

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.

If the maintenance is robust and properly followed, aircraft have a virtually infinite life.

Clearly we need to do everything we can to reduce the impact of aviation on people who live near airports and our project is looking at ways of keeping the aircraft higher for longer which will keep the noise further away and also at lower thrust settings as they're coming in to land.

Craig Foster

Clients with fractional aircraft have to be a very wealthy individual because the charter costs are double or triple a smaller plane.

The commercial-rated pilot in the right seat was flying the aircraft at the time of the accident. He is the pilot referred to in the probable cause report.

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.

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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.