Aviation Quotes - Page 6

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

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

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

You're on your way, Jose!

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.

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

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.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

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.

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.

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.

The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were no undesirable flight characteristics. The directional stability was excellent and, properly trimmed, the B-17 could be taken off, landed and banked without change of trim.

A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.

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