Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Horner

Bombardier continues to strengthen its position as Europe's leading provider of total transportation solutions. We are introducing new aircraft that deliver our customers unsurpassed performance and superior value in traditional European markets such as Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom, while also successfully playing a pioneering role to establish business aviation in new markets like Russia and the Ukraine.

Boeing licenses its commercial and military aircraft trademarks to model makers and, as required by federal law, monitors the quality of these products,

Boeing has the financial resources to withstand a strike of at least two to three months, and much of the negative financial effect will be reversed once aircraft deliveries resume,

Boeing and Lockheed are scared. They also don't want to get cross-wise with NASA, and NASA has sent the message to those companies that it views outer space as its monopoly, ... Those companies also have a history of being risk averse to put up their own capital when they don't have a government program to support them. This is very risky. The commercial aircraft business is very predictable compared to the aerospace.

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.

This coming January, we will deliver the first A330 aircraft to China Eastern Airlines, which will help to further increase its operational flexibility, especially on international and regional long-haul routes.

This evening we'll put all aircraft up in the air.

This aircraft signifies many rescues. Many men were saved because this aircraft was able to get to them.

Mark Russell

This aircraft self protection security system warns of potential close proximity threats to aircraft parked on the ground.

this aircraft means a lot, being in here, not just because it was the aircraft I got shot up in, in Vietnam, but because it is the aircraft we used in Vietnam.

Paule Marshall

They were intended to be the fastest amphibian aircraft in the world. That's a big appeal.

When you live in the second largest city in the country, there is going to be a lot of aircraft and people have to understand that. Cities are noisy places, whether it's noise coming from the ground or in the air. I have helicopters flying over my home but that is the price I pay for living in the Hollywood Hills. That is the price I pay for living in Los Angeles.

With the arrival of new, modern and fuel-efficient aircraft in our North American fleet, Air Canada is now able to implement significant network improvements that will benefit consumers with more point-to-point, non-stop flights and enhanced schedules.

With the aircraft on jacks, small excitation forces will be applied to the airframe. Measurements of the structural response for a range of excitation frequencies will be made using accelerometers.

Raytheon Aircraft is proud of the success of the T-6A. The program has matured into the best flying training system in the world.

Probably one of the most difficult moments of my life was the 11 minutes from the point I watched that aircraft when we first lost communications to the point that aircraft hit the World Trade Center." ()

The system that Northwest has in place can't last forever. They're falling down. No matter what they report they are falling down on the repair of the aircraft and, at some point, it's going to have to come to an end and we're going to have to go back into work.

They have their own ZIP code. They fly multiple aircraft out of Springfield-Branson National Airport every day with catalog-ordered merchandise.

There's a tremendous crunch on the way. Every aircraft now in production is under threat.

The work will be a hardship while it's under way for a lot of the aircraft owners and operators. However, the feedback we're getting is they recognize it's important for the long-term use of the airport.

These are all steps in the right direction. Clearly the sale of the aircraft unit is a positive. I have questioned for a long time why they've had it. Good riddance.

Mary Schiavo

The rule of thumb is that aircraft are built for a 20-year economic life. That doesn't mean they fall out of the sky after 20 years. But it does mean they need tender loving care.

Vijay Mallya

For the first time, we will be able to offer direct non-stop services between India and the USA and these aircraft will have a unique configuration giving passengers extra space and comfort on their long flights,

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.

The headline is all about Boeing, which reported 200 new aircraft orders in May, up from 14 in April. Unusually, it seems that nearly all these orders have hit the official data immediately. Apart from this, however, these are soft data. Ex-transportation orders fell 0.2% and there was a downward revision to April, now put at -0.7%.

The higher the oil price, the greater the demand for more fuel-efficient aircraft. We should encourage airlines to buy new aircraft to replace those which are 15 or 20 years old.

Giovanni Bisignani

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

Aircraft leasing is not a business that fits with our strategy.

Aircraft is responsible for a lot of that decline. My suspicion is that the manufacturing sector will ease up, but the manufacturing recovery is still in place.

Aircraft flying overhead that will be one indication that things will change.

Aircraft do have landing gear problems. What is extremely rare is when you have television cameras aimed at the plane ... there were a lot of people in our office that were really stunned about how perfect that landing looked.

Airbus has made a substantial commitment within the United States, where we procure more than 46 percent of our aircraft parts and systems, and where we already have four other centers of excellence. This engineering center is further representation of that commitment.

James Boyd

The flight commander on board the aircraft reported hitting an object on the takeoff run, ... aborted takeoff.