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“Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I love the sky's unbroken solitude. I don't like to think of it cluttered up by aircraft, as roads are cluttered up by cars. I feel like the western pioneer when he saw barbed-wire fence lines encroaching on his open plains. The success of his venture brought the end of the life he loved.”

“The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market.”

Firsts Two Hours Company Produce Training Range Seats Aviation Electric Predictions Aircraft

Author:Erik Lindbergh

“At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war.”

“You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a person says 'will I be participating in the new world?' Only in areas that you can participate it. Areas that you have competence in. I'm not talking about self confidence, I'm talking about the ability to solve problems. Electrical, chemical, technical. I don't know of any other kind of problem.”

Ifs Knows World Kind Persons Self Problem Ability Talking Areas Solve Self Confidence Chemicals New World Agriculture Competence Not Talking Electrical Participating Aircraft Redesign

Author:Jacque Fresco

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Able Brother Flight Testing Aircraft Hawks Kitties Wright Brothers

Author:Larry Walters

“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.”

Ifs Men Needs Flower Direct Lifts Airplane Rescue Aircraft

Author:Igor Sikorsky

“If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible to do the same thing for motor vehicles, heating and air-conditioning systems or computers, etc. This project voices our conviction that a pioneering spirit with political vision can together change society and and reduce society's dependence on fossil energies.”

“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.”

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Author:Ian Anderson

“Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.”

“A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.”

Capable Aviation Vehicle Airline Aircraft

Author:William Bushnell Stout

“An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.”

People Used Accounts Aviation Wealthy Expenses Taxpayers Airline Aircraft

Author:Denis Healey

“We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft.”

Bigs Order Havens Aviation Airline Aircraft

Author:Willie Walsh

“Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.”

“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.”

War Order Modern Rate Profession Aviation Requirements Equipment Marine Marine Corps Aircraft Inventory Obsolescence Modern War

Author:Keith B. McCutcheon

“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.”

Ifs Way Wells Jobs I Realized Curious Pilots Jet Aircraft

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft”

Light Goal Fields Achievement Setting Settings Setting Goals Road To Success Landing Aircraft Runway

Book:Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement

Source: Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement

“Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.”

Years Directors Terror Boredom Seconds Pilots Banking Aircraft

Book:The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America

Source: The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America

“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.”

Fighting Concern Wings Significant Teeth Fighter Capability Nails Reducing Aircraft Personnel

Author:Mark Pryor

“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.”

Ifs Sound Class Economy Design Comfort Appreciate Improvement Noise Classic Aircraft Ghastly

Author:Prince Philip

“What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How would the comment section on YouTube change if, to use it, you had to have the schooling necessary to have a basic understanding of how computers and the internet work? More seriously, would anyone smart enough to know how to design and build a tank, or a laser guided anti-aircraft missile, or a computer and video editing software be stupid enough to join ISIS? In fact, if such knowledge was required—would it even be possible for there to be standing armies?”

“America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.”

Want America Pay Hell Defense Brilliant Google Programmers Aircraft Carrier Contractor Aircraft Carriers

Book:Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

Source: Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

“Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.”

Knows Know How Risk Management Complexes Engines Risk Management Aircraft Opaque

Author:Jamie Dimon

“Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.”

Car Design Exciting Racing Aircraft Race Car Exciting Things

Author:James Dyson

“Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.”

World Way Perfect Building Internet Perfection Mathematics Train Surface Speed Code Bridges Crucial Aircraft High Speed Below The Surface

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.”

Use Process Military Design Engines Jet Aircraft Jet Engines

Author:Amar Bose

“This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.”

Looks Aircraft

Author:Niki Lauda

“I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.”

Flying Aircraft

Author:Leroy Chiao

“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.”

Years Government Past Form Purpose Lines Cost Lows Billions Developing Loan Aircraft Airbus

Author:Norm Dicks

“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.”

Doe Used Known Taken Four Weapons Overcoming Make Sense Allowing Airplane Crew Passengers Aircraft

Author:Dave Reichert

“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.”

Made Stills Today Three Existence Written Type Productions Driven Impression Reports Substitutes Aircraft Propeller

Author:Adolf Galland

“Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.”

Made Given Opinion Cases Normal Workers Illness Propaganda Sickness Instruction Percentages Aircraft

Author:Albert Speer

“During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.”

Said Given Company Team Source Members Photograph Obvious Missions Bones Crash Site Fragments Packages Digging Aircraft Containing Debris Team Member Laos

Author:Bo Gritz

“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.”

Wells Government Four Cost Forgiveness Debt Range Assistance Aircraft Subsidies Injection Government Assistance Airbus

Author:Norm Dicks

“The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.”

Knows Want Trying Reason Hurt Technology Air Type Crafts Als Imagery Passengers Al Qaeda Aircraft Cargo

Author:John S. Pistole

“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.”

Years Company Industry Years Ago British Aircraft Airbus

Author:Norm Dicks

“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.”

Used Built Fighter Fifty Aircraft

Author:Adolf Galland

“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.”

Force President Support Air Military Events Ego Campaigns Nine Operations President Obama Pulling Trails Air Force Aircraft Cargo Military Operations

Author:Fred Thompson

“There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.”

“California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.”

Source: Conversations with Christopher Isherwood

“California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.”

Way Wells Philosophy Character Film Tvs Huge Civilization Tradition Studios Posts California Factories Rooted Automobile Aircraft Charlatans Philosophy And Religion Cosmopolitanism

Author:J. B. Priestley

“Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?”

War Policy Possibility Cold Terrible Weapons Rain Threat Bombs Chemicals Conventional Cold War Tanks Missiles Aircraft Submarines Chemical Weapons Torpedoes

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“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.”

Fans Middle Media Football Ocean Luck Invisible Manage Soccer Planes Grey Aircraft Carrier Ferguson Aircraft Carriers

Author:Nick Hancock

“Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.”

“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.”

Firsts Has Beens Ends Facts Half Century Military Historical Driven Flying Flight Destructive Significance Engines Starks Aircraft Historical Significance

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.”

Ifs Writing Wells Done Enough Might Wish Aviation Aircraft Airplanes And Flying

Book:Selected Letters, 1917-1961

Source: Selected Letters, 1917-1961

“As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it's obsolete."”

Ifs Said Stories Humor Funny Past Worry Food Type Humorous Window Planes Sat Bob Jet Airline Obsolete Aircraft Colonels Air Travel Swapping

Author:Bob Hope

“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.”

Made Real Funny America Car Humorous Weight Size Characteristics Fuel Iron Efficiency Detroit Chunks Aircraft Carrier Plymouth Aircraft Carriers Fuel Efficiency

Book:Dave Barry Does Japan

Source: Dave Barry Does Japan

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