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Tag Name "Aviation" (50)

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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
Felix Baumgartner
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Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war.
Keith B. McCutcheon
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Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.
Amelia Earhart
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Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
Freeman Dyson
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Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.
Jessie Redmon Fauset
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Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.
Amelia Earhart
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Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Western European civilization.
Charles Lindbergh
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The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.
William Langewiesche
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People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.
David Neeleman
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It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.
George Will
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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.
Janet Napolitano
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To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.
Jerry Crawford
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For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft
Jim Lovell
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Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his work as film producer, he certainly went after a bigger and more ambitious kind of filmmaking, even if he wasn't necessarily a cinema artist.
Alden Ehrenreich
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Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Black people don't hijack planes, alright? Now I'll be the first to admit, we steal a lot of stuff, but we do not hijack planes. In fact, in the history of aviation, a black person has never even attempted to hijack a plane. Do you want to know why? Because you can't sell an airplane.
Alonzo Bodden
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When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather your comparisons from the stuff particular to that world - be they king salmon and aviation fuel, or pot roasts and spatulas.
Leigh Newman
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Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.
Atul Gawande
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There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars.
Mike Batt
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The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.
Bob Blumer
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More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.
Norm Dicks
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The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
Bruce Dickinson
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This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
Steve Fossett
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