Aviation Quotes

How could they possibly be Japanese planes?

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.

Good flying never killed an enemy yet.

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.

I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

You're on your way, Jose!

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

Always carry through an attack when you have started it.

I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

It's a great day for TWA.

Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.

The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Height gives you the initiative.

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.

I counted them all out and I counted them all back.

I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake.

Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me.

Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.