Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to help them get the word out that they converted from the Otter to the Beechcraft, ... We want people to experience the aircraft and hopefully the word of mouth will translate into more passengers.

The Raptor not only combines the capabilities of several legacy aircraft by delivering air dominance, lethal intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, but it does so without adversaries even knowing the aircraft is out there -- as proven this past year. As the world's only 5th Generation fighter aircraft in operation, it has overwhelming capability to ensure USAF air dominance for the next four decades.

This would mean a lot of business opportunities from this region for aircraft manufacturers in the coming years.

There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology.

George Gray

We know there's plenty of demand, not only in Wichita, but all over the country for these folks, ... We recently visited in Little Rock, Ark., where there are several companies there needing cabinet makers for their aircraft as well.

Our inbound aircraft area carrying extra fuel to that we do not have to refuel all our aircraft at Heathrow.

Our priorities remain meeting our commitments, especially aircraft and spare parts to the U.S. military to support all their efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Our forecast was undone by two factors. The impact of the post-Katrina spike in oil prices is lingering; it will eventually fade. Second, trade in goods ex-oil and aircraft -- core -- deteriorated again.

Our goal is to put an aircraft to respond anywhere in the impact area within 20 minutes. Either a rotary wing or fixed wing aircraft. We're set. We're positioned.

Brian Nelson

Our first and gravest priority is simply to ensure that no other Marine is asked to give his life until this aircraft is safe and until it is determined to be ready for the Marine Corps' mission,

Overall sales and earnings growth were below our expectations, reflecting performance issues as well as delays of commercial space launches and military aircraft deliveries from 1998 into 1999.

People of the ancient might not yet familiar and had no references at all with aircraft technology and propulsion system as we have today. Therefore, if they saw something strange and flying in the sky, sometimes they called it as chariots of fire, or wheel upon the earth, or by some words which came out of their minds and mouths spontaneously.

Staying competitive means delivering more than our competitors in all areas of aircraft development.

That could have crippled the airport right at Christmas. Aircraft could have landed with a 1,300 foot-ceiling and then not been able to take off.

My people have a lot of money invested in land and aircraft they can't use because of his antics.

Long-lead suppliers are doing work on that 180th aircraft and in some cases have completed work.

Looking forward, the revenue picture is expected to continue to strengthen as we increase capacity in North America with new large regional aircraft deliveries.

I saw it climbing up in the air. It was making a steep climb that you usually don't see aircraft do like that. And just as I was wondering why was he making such a steep climb up then the plane sort of flattened out and took a nose dive straight down until it hit the ground.

John Mica

I think this is mostly our responsibility, ... but also it's something that we might require as standard operating equipment on new, large aircraft that would be at risk.

Gwen Ifill

Picture perfect. Part Spider-Man, part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan. The President seized the moment on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.

Passengers are now free to bring weapons back on board aircraft in the form of scissors.

I am convinced that before the end of this decade, we will see preparations for China to build its first indigenous aircraft carrier.

Manmohan Singh

I am happy to announce that our government has cleared the purchase of 43 aircraft from Airbus.

There are no plans at this stage to stop flights coming in but the situation is very uncertain. We have several aircraft scheduled for this week to bring in food for tens of thousands of people.

I think the main concern was with the aircraft frame.

The expected drop in aircraft orders is strictly month-to- month noise and does not have any impact on the outlook for growth.

If the aircraft went into depressurization very quickly, you only have a few seconds before you lose consciousness, because you don't have any air to breathe at that altitude.

If the aircraft lost cabin pressure, either in the cockpit or the cabin, effectively everybody would be doomed within a short space of time.

We'll wait until their investigation is over to do our own evaluation on the aircraft and the packages on board.

We had flown Shark21 mostly up to that point so both the aircraft would be available for the Prime Minister's flight (on February 2),

Robert Englund

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.

Most airlines will take the wine on board the aircraft and taste it, because red wine in particular can taste quite different when drunk in-flight compared to on the ground.

Simplicity is the key. It is a marvelous thing to have crews that can fly on any airplane at any time, and to have a maintenance department work on a single aircraft type.