Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

That means an aircraft operators use of air traffic control resources determines the amount owed to the FAA, whether the aircraft is carrying three or thirty or three-hundred passengers.

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 reasonable to say the aircraft will be tracked by Yugoslav early warning systems.

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 brought more people on their planes, which shows that they continue to offer superior product and put their aircraft into places where business people want to fly.

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,

They want aircraft checked. It's a mechanical issue, they want to make sure the equipment is good.

They hear about a filing, they see an aircraft flying and they assume there's some value on the stock and that they're going to get it at a bargain.

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.

The long range of these new missiles will reduce the risk to both aircraft and crew by decreasing their exposure in a high threat environment.

David Gray

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

An aircraft part. A small structural part, as opposed to a mechanical part.

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.

The market took the report in context -- which is that it is often distorted by aircraft orders. It didn't really ignite the bond bulls that the headline number was down so much.

A subsequent search of the private aircraft and records checks of the two individuals revealed there were no outstanding warrants or illegal contraband on board the aircraft.

As new aircraft programs are introduced and upgrades are made to existing fleets in the coming years, we expect to see strong demand for simulated maintenance trainers.

It's just the same kind of arresting gear that they use onboard aircraft carriers.

Although there are precedents for both pilots losing consciousness at the controls of aircraft in the past, for it to happen on a large airliner like a Boeing 737, with all the backup systems they have there, does seem to be really quite extraordinary.

A maintenance facility in India will be very useful for local carriers. If you have a local center, the cost of sending aircraft outside for major checks, which is considerable, can be saved.

This depiction of flight attendants is an outrage, ... Flight attendants continue to be the first line of defense on an aircraft and put their lives on the line day after day for the safety of passengers.