345 Quotes About Airplane

This is good for consumers; it's just a lot harder to do when you're flying an airplane as fast as these companies are flying and you want to change the engine at the same time. We have to get it right.

When I read about her protesting, I sent a thousand dollars of my own money to get myself and my children on an airplane up here to share my side and my thoughts and Alan's. I want to let the president know that Diana does not speak for this family.

Every effort is made to dissuade an airplane from going into any area that's prohibited, for example, ... And there are all kinds of ways that's done. It's done through radio communication. It's done through hand signals. It's done through flying in front of an airplane ... There are a lot of safeguards in place.

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

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.

When I was 60 years old, I had my horrible airplane wreck and I hadn't won a championship yet and, as I came back, I was sure I never would,