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I established strong connections between Rockwell and Israel Aircraft Industries. -- Arnon Milchan
Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s. -- Robert Englund
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that. -- Nevil Shute
One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas. -- James Earl Jones
Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft. -- Billy Mitchell
Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing. -- James Dyson
It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance. -- Adolf Galland
Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. -- Charles Lindbergh
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. -- Winston Churchill
The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing. -- Howard Hughes
More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons. -- Philip Hammond
We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion. -- Douglas Bader
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones. -- Henri Coanda
Osama bin Laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that probably cost almost nothing. -- Richard Engel
I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets. -- George McGovern
Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin. -- Bruce Sterling
I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality. -- George H. W. Bush
Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there. -- Paul Cellucci
I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job. -- Bruce Dickinson
I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough. -- Eugene Cernan
We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. -- Adolf Galland
I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression. -- Adolf Galland
There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology. -- Sarah Parcak
When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft. -- Simon Sinek
Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time. -- Robbie Williams
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II. -- Ian Anderson
To the aircraft I aim, not the man. -- Francesco Baracca
I know something about aircraft carriers for real. -- John F. Kerry
After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus. -- Tyler Cowen
Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top. -- Dave Barry
Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics. -- James Cook
I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat. -- Barack Obama
This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one. -- Niki Lauda
We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft. -- Willie Walsh
The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that. -- Tony Fernandes
Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany. -- Adolf Hitler
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates
I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft. -- Leroy Chiao
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. -- Jamie Dimon
Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist. -- Ben Goldacre
All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines. -- Amar Bose
It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle. -- Jacques Rosay
The Bf 109 is, without doubt, the most satisfying and challenging aircraft that I have ever flown. -- Mark Hanna
A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time. -- William Bushnell Stout
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. -- Alan Shepard
Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. -- Joseph Stalin
Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person? -- Donald Rumsfeld
The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire. -- Charles Kingsford Smith
Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft -- Nido R Qubein
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. -- Dean Acheson
If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. -- Joe Biden
Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators. -- Abdus Salam
I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time. -- Connie Kalitta
I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it? -- Richard Hugo
America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want. -- Robin Sloan
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers. -- Denis Healey
From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today. -- Frank Herman Schofield
Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror. -- Moira Johnston
The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market. -- Erik Lindbergh
Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building. -- Vladimir Putin
Ultimately, an aircraft owner does not want to have to deal with all the intricate details which are necessary for the business. -- Niki Lauda
Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars? -- Hunter Lovins
In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans. -- David Mackay
According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean. -- Nick Hancock
Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego. -- James L. Farmer, Jr.
Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be. -- Adolf Galland
UTC Aerospace Systems has a couple of million dollars of content on every single aircraft that gets delivered. That's the chutes, the electric system, rotors, etc. -- Louis R. Chenevert
Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings. -- Norman Foster
These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost. -- Norm Dicks
I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting. -- Norman Foster
I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft. -- Mark Pryor
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
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive. -- Charles Lindbergh
The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing. -- Hermann Goring
If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk. -- Larry Walters
We have good joint projects in the helicopter and aircraft manufacturing industry. We are considering cooperation and are actively cooperating in space. There are good prospects there [with China]. -- Vladimir Putin
During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines. -- Norm Dicks
The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats. -- John C. Stennis
There are more than 3500 military and commercial aircraft pilot reports of encounters worldwide; many cases have corroborating radar documentation and multiple witnesses both on the ground and in the air. -- Steven M. Greer
Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft. -- Robert Kennedy
Idealists , workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine , of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies. -- Norm Dicks
But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf. -- Paul Cellucci
We are very grateful for the vital contributions Germany has made to this fight, training local forces in Iraq, sharing intelligence providing reconnaissance aircraft including the recent deployment of additional NATO AWACS. -- Barack Obama
Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
They [China] have indicated that they're trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat. -- Herman Cain
Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security. -- Alexander Haig
It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft. -- Dave Reichert
The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail. -- Fred Thompson
I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school. -- Margaret Drabble
My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15. -- Jeremy Irons
Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization. -- Daniel Quinn
From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye's function being the function of a weapon. -- Paul Virilio
If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly. -- Prince Philip
At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do. -- Burt Rutan
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
Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency. -- Dave Barry
If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life. -- Igor Sikorsky

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