Famous Quotes & Sayings

Just picture the Eiffel Tower on its side and trying to maneuver it around an aircraft carrier with little room to spare.

Having started with only two Airbus A320 aircraft in September last year, Tiger Airways has grown and will continue to grow as one of the world's leading low-fare airlines.

James Hansen

If there's one place that I could put my finger on and say what's the No. 1 place that if a rogue aircraft came in and you had trouble it would really have a huge amount of trouble, it would have to be Houston, Texas. Boy, that could just bring America to its knees, almost.

David Mackay

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.

In aviation, China is using the lure of being the world's largest market for commercial aircraft to leverage an increasing amount of subcontract work from both Boeing and Airbus.

Abraham Lincoln

I know something about aircraft carriers. And I can't wait to tell this country that landing on an aircraft carrier doesn't make up for the lack of an economic plan or a security plan for the United States of America.

You could estimate 50 per cent of the aircraft had fallen apart in the sky.

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Giovanni Bisignani

Airline ownership restrictions became national rights. Now the flags on our aircraft are so heavy they are sinking the industry.

It's not a significant impact on numbers. It wasn't in Boeing's plan, ... The bottom line is there's a glut of aircraft worldwide, even if traffic recovers domestically to pre Sept. 11 levels, it's going to take significant numbers for a recovery.

Eclipse, a U.S. company, has come out with the (smaller) Eclipse 500. There are huge orders booked for these aircraft and they think they are going to be the next big thing.

Each pilot will go to the simulator once a year. If the FAA feels that they want to have the aircraft require a type rating, I would support that.

Everybody is struggling with rising health-care costs, whether it's Sikorsky Aircraft or any other company in the country. We're simply not immune to that. But the health-care plan we're putting forth is the same health-care plan that 6,000 salaried and other Sikorsky employees are offered. It's a good health-care plan.

The airlines would seem to make sure that they could employ these larger aircraft in all the different locations they fly to from here.

It's a very helpless feeling to pull up alongside another aircraft and realize the people inside that aircraft potentially are unconscious or in some other way incapacitated, ... And there's nothing I can do physically from my aircraft -- even though I'm 50 to 100 feet away -- to help them at all.

It's pretty clear that all the pieces for capital spending are in place, including rising sales, lower inventories and increases in shipments and orders, ... So, despite what CEOs say in public, there's no question that capital spending -- outside of aircraft and telecommunications -- has bottomed and is on the way up.

The noise level we're looking for would be to take it below the background noise that people experience outside airports ... below traffic noise levels, ... Silent Aircraft Initiative.

The objective of these observations is to contribute towards the safety, regularity and efficiency of aircraft operations during takeoff and landing.

That's real aviation. You don't even need an aircraft to fly. I feel there are a lot of things to discover in life.

That is a big and complex code. If you take problems like finding the optimal shape for common automotive and aircraft structures, you have to somehow find the shape that has the least weight but at the same time won't break. We call that process shape optimization or topology optimization. These shapes have holes in them for bolting them in place or to reduce their weight. You have to decide whether to have one hole or two holes or 10 holes in a part, exactly where to put those holes and how to shape the holes.

Tony Blair

targeted and measured response to the dramatic increase in attacks on coalition aircraft in January.

It's a matter of funding. As we get the funding, we can bring more vintage aircraft in.

Henry Shelton

It's a matter now of the procedures that we have to go through to have the aircraft returned,

It's an attention-getter, but it's not blinding. It's not a distraction. So pilots can still focus on flying the aircraft without endangering anyone or themselves.

It's very popular with fractional aircraft owners and corporations.

Its weapon of choice for attacking villages is an anti- aircraft cannon. It has been the main organization responsible for the brutal killings and mass depopulation that's going on in Kosovo.

They were set to lose all their aircraft and half of their personnel. The capabilities for the state that would have been lost if that decision had been made was just huge.

James Harris

They want to minimize the impact of aircraft being taken out of the market,

Service between New York and Washington, D.C. is something we're looking at very closely, but right now we're deploying our aircraft to cities we feel are under-served and over-priced -- and there are quite a few cities in that category, including Washington, D.C.

At this time, we don't really have the aircraft we would need to even consider it.

The January revision is mostly due to the plunge in aircraft orders reported in the durable-goods numbers. In February, the index was pulled down by lower consumer confidence, higher jobless claims, shorter delivery times and lower building permits.

David Gray

An aircraft was sent out early this morning and saw a light diesel sheen which is heading northeast away from the island.

Romesh Gunesekera

An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.