Aviation Quotes

• The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Fly
  • Flight
  • Pilots

• There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
  • Small
  • Flying

• The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
  • Small
  • Modern

• At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Time
  • Poor
  • Engineering

• Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

  

  John Travolta
  • World
  • Sports
  • Exciting

• This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Important
  • Failure
  • Fly

• They will certainly have a role in the future of aviation, there is no doubt about it. People will prefer to fly non-stop if it is available

  

  Chris Avery
  • Future
  • Fly
  • Prefer

• For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air. Later when asked what it felt like, I said, "It felt as though angels were pushing".

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Time
  • Air
  • Flying

• 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.

  

  C. R. Smith
  • Firsts
  • Aviation
  • Dough

• Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you told us goodbye And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Sad
  • Promise
  • Sky

• All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

  

  Octave Chanute
  • Air
  • Flying
  • Aviation

• It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things. In the overall scheme of things, it proves that men can do about anything they want to if they work hard enough at it, and I knew that I could do it . . . and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to.

  

  Scott Carpenter
  • Men
  • Chance
  • Enough

• These tensions, and the trade situation, are not supportive to any of the players in aerospace, we don't think we'll be losing more than the other guys in that situation, but we think it should be resolved in one way or another that enables global businesses like aviation to continue to grow.

  

  Guillaume Faury
  • Situation
  • Grow
  • Aviation

• It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

  

  C. R. Smith
  • Money
  • Firsts
  • Airplane

• The aviation industry, including combat air force, has been traditionally developing here. It is the Russian Far East where the SU aircraft, which are well known worldwide, are manufactured.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Air
  • Force
  • Combat

• There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.

  

  Alex James Blur
  • Sometimes
  • Flying
  • Disaster

• Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic.

  

  John Wilkins
  • Men
  • Together
  • Giving

• You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Horse
  • Airplane
  • Lovely

• The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Magic

• I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a tiny two-seater plane soaring gracefully through the sky. Our great airlines awe me. Yet I know they were not produced in a day or a decade.

  

  William A. Patterson
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Planes

• These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

  

  C. R. Smith
  • Money
  • Business
  • Making Money

• The economic dynamics and legal complexities of civil aviation is as complex as it’s science,art and technology. My opinion is that, non subject matter experts should either seek for knowledge or keep quiet. Same may apply to other professions, I suppose.

  

  Sirika Hadi
  • Knowledge
  • Technology
  • Complexities

• Fear, to people who have been in aviation and combat (such as) fighter pilots ... is something you learn how to deal with and set aside, ... It's a very disabling emotion. You want to be alert as you possibly can.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Fear
  • Combat

• I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Music
  • Different
  • History

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