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The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.
I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.
It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.
Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.
Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
I think I've got such a diverse set of interests - movies, aviation, technology, sports teams.
Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.
I think it's inevitable that aviation is a part of the economic growth that surrounds airports.
When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.
Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.
Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.
Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.
I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.
I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.
I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.
No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him.
The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.
It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?
More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.
Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"
The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.
Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of a kick.
It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.
It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.
Miramar is known as the aviation hub; many businesses right here in the city are supplying the aviation industry.
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.
The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.
There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.
It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.
Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.