Aviation Quotes - Page 9

This industry attracts more capital than it deserves.

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

Through you, we feel as giants, once again.

America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.

Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.

This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

This is a nasty, rotten business.

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.

Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.

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.

How does 2002 bombing accident in Afghanistan happen? In this awful case it took so many lives, and I want to assure the families and the people of Canada that these questions will be answered. How this can happen is a mystery to us.

It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.

Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.] [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]

At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.

Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him.

Can build plane... Delivery about three months.

Those were my children being slaughtered.

Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.

Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots.

This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.

South Wales is a hub of aviation.