Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kalpana Chawla

I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

Gore Vidal

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

Our aerospace companies have had greater success in winning contracts, and so they have increased their employment accordingly.

Our aerospace and commercial transportation markets are particularly robust this year, and we expect overall market conditions to remain strong.

The money's coming from both side of the business. You have commercial aerospace with explosive growth. The commercial aircraft orders have been exceptionally strong over the course of the summer and also on the defense side of the business where government budgets have been picking up in the last couple of years and are not expected to continue to pick up through the next administration.

These results are consistent with the revised performance outlook we released June 9. We are focused on our core aerospace and defense business to deliver strong performance.

You're putting a lot of Canadian content in this plane, which means if it fails, much of Canada's aerospace industry really feels that pain, and perhaps fails with it.

A lot of those positives in the aerospace market are in there already.

As a result of the merger with McDonnell Douglas and acquisition of Rockwell's aerospace and defense operations, we are strategically realigning the use of our facilities to provide better value to our customers and shareholders,

The United States has always been a leader in the aerospace industry, but as Third World nations are developing greater capabilities in space, we're going to lose our lead.

We've had an aerospace industry that was growing and Spar had committed to moving people here and we were very excited about it,

Lawrence Bossidy

We expect our 1999 sales to grow faster than the global economy as a result of new product introductions in each of our business units, expected demand for aircraft safety systems, market-share growth in the aerospace aftermarket, capacity expansion in turbochargers and recovery in the electronics market,

At the time of the AGM in November, we had pointed out that development expenditure in aerospace would affect the first-half performance.

W. Richard Stevens

It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.

I'm very excited about the strength Mike brings to the CFO position. He has run our highest-margin business for the past three years, has taken personal involvement in new opportunities to grow this business, and has a keen knowledge and understanding of our company and the aerospace industry.

I'm very excited about the strength Mike brings to the CFO position, ... He has run our highest-margin business for the past three years, has taken personal involvement in new opportunities to grow this business, and has a keen knowledge and understanding of our company and the aerospace industry.

In an effort to promote innovation, Shanghai will strive to build an independent system for the research, testing and manufacturing of aerospace products.

Doris Goodwin

In a second prepared statement, two directors, a retired pilot and a former executive of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, condemned the AMFA attack as ''totally misguided.

In the mid- 1990s, we began re-evaluating common practices within the aerospace industry. We became determined to eliminate inefficiency within our machining operations. We developed entirely unique software for monitoring our processes, standardized on high-quality Mori Seiki machinery, and made a concerted effort to maximize productivity through automation.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Group Co. will step up the application of aerospace technology in civil projects.

Steve Fossett

I really like the association with NASA. This is where the great things in aerospace start from.

Mario Monti

The merger... would have severely reduced competition in the aerospace industry and resulted ultimately in higher prices for customers, particularly airlines.

This is a milestone event in the history of aerospace. For the first time in all of space flight, a facility is now available for regularly scheduled, private space launches. Thanks to the vision of the State of New Mexico, as well as the aerospace capabilities provided by our company, the 'final frontier' is now open to everyone.

It more than makes up for the gradual loss that we and many towns have sustained in terms of aerospace employment.

It's all happening kind of fast. It's amazing the response we've gotten. It shows that all this has hit a raw, patriotic nerve, and we're attracting a cross-section of America -- everyone from CEOs to coal miners and aerospace engineers to corner-garage mechanics.

Steven Bochco

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

Peter Diamandis

In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where the Boeings and the Lockheed's and the Northrop's and so forth. And there's no way these small companies could do it.

This is a highly synergistic partnership. It delivers what the US defense, aerospace and homeland security market needs by combining our leading semiconductor laser technology with EM4's US-based high performance packaging capability.

The cutbacks in aerospace and defense sent a signal to the job market that engineers and math and science degrees were not going to be as much in demand in the 1990s as they were, in fact, going to be,

The increase we've made ties us as having the leading pension in the aerospace industry. The improvements we've made since 1999, along with the current offer, would mean a 65 percent improvement in pensions since 1999.