Top 60 Aviation Quotes

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.

I’m in control of things happening in my aviation career. And I’m not in my acting career.

Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies and other businesses a method of hedging against adverse price changes. Instead, they’ve become just another Wall Street plaything.

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name – by my father‘s position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

If you listen to Semi-Precious Weapons‘ last single, ‘Aviation High,’ you can definitely hear that even in my old band, even in the songs I was writing then, the pop influence really started to take over.

We need people building companies all over the country to innovate in aviation, consumer products, education, health, cybersecurity, biotech, manufacturing, and everything in between.

I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.

There is a terrorist threat to this country that remains, and I believe that counter-terrorism needs to be the cornerstone of our mission, our vast mission… and aviation security is something that we still have a fair amount of concerns about.

The core businesses are transforming in very futuristic ways. You know, our aviation business, very interesting things are going on, and unmanned vehicles, drone technology, and things like that.

The joke in aviation is, ‘If you want to make a million, you’d better start with £10m.’

I think I’ve got such a diverse set of interests – movies, aviation, technology, sports teams.

Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation – especially in its military aspects.

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

Tourism is a very very important sector for us. Hospitality is an important sector for us. Civil Aviation is an important sector for us. In a country like India where they contribute to the GDP, not only GDP but millions of jobs have been provided through these sectors.

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you’re going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

Non-commercial general aviation flights serve as a lifeline to thousands of communities where airlines do not fly, while contributing a fraction of total U.S. air traffic congestion.

My one concern is that when money gets tight, it’s easy to cut R&D funding that isn’t tied to a specific project – look at what’s happened to NASA‘s aviation research.

There’s simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

Reliance has built a refinery-led energy business and a materials business. In the energy business, we give 2% of the world‘s petrol, diesel, and aviation fuel.

Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it… They’ve been doing this for over a hundred years, they’ve been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

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

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

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation should strongly recommend to the cabinet that Jet Airways should be merged with Air India, not only to ensure air services are not restricted but also to enable Air India to recover its former premier position.

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.

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.

The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand – the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations.

Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world.

In Wichita, the district I represent, the ‘Air Capital of the World,’ general aviation is critical to the proper functioning of our airspace and is a key driver of economic growth, innovation, and job creation.

The Greatest Living Yankee is Whitey Ford, who came out of Aviation High School, which was then in Manhattan, and helped pitch the Yankees to victory in the 1950 World Series when he was 21.

I’d manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else.

I read, studied, and learned everything I could find about aviation. It was my greatest desire to become a pilot. I could already picture myself in the cockpit of an airliner or in a military fighter plane. I felt deep in my heart this was my thing!

I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

I have always been an aviation nerd. I read the magazines.

I know a lot of people in the aviation business, particularly ones who will fly to places where your boots get dirty when you get out of the airplane.

I like the mode of business of aviation. It’s a risky business with difficulties which you can fill with innovative ideas and different things.

Aviation – and space travel, in particular – have always been especially captivating.

When you look at the trajectory of autonomous vehicles, I think you can look at the trajectory of other industries whether it’s aviation, I think is a really good one to look at, and you’ll see there’s always an evolution as the technology gets better and better.

I’m not an aviation historian, I’m not an Air Force aficionado, and I’m definitely not a ufologist. I’m not someone who studies UFOs.

I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that’s what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.

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

You come to Washington, there’s a rail bill, there’s a highway bill, there’s a aviation bill. But when you go home, there’s an airport, there’s a highway, there’s a rail, there’s transit. It all has to work together.

You can’t imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom – a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training – but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn’t be only for the rich.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

It was like I need something else in my life, and that’s when I kind of went back to my childhood interest in aviation and aerospace, and I just started flying.

The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation.

If you are like many people, flying may be a large portion of your carbon footprint. Over all, the aviation industry accounts for 11 percent of all transportation-related emissions in the United States.

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.

Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of aviation and about a tenth of trucking. But it’s not benign, because there’s so much of it. So shipping emissions are about three to four percent, almost the same as aviation’s.