Aviation Quotes

In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.

Tom Wolfe

SchoolWayTopAviationEveryone

I was a big aviation buff as a boy.

Brian Binnie

BoyAviationBigBuff

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.

Norm Dicks

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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

Eddie Rickenbacker

ImpossibleAchieveWillAviation

Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of aviation and about a tenth of trucking. But it's not benign, because there's so much of it. So shipping emissions are about three to four percent, almost the same as aviation's.

Rose George

ThreeAviationSameTransportFour

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

Bruce Dickinson

StartBetterYouWantAviationJoke

Reliance has built a refinery-led energy business and a materials business. In the energy business, we give 2% of the world's petrol, diesel, and aviation fuel.

Mukesh Ambani

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Non-commercial general aviation flights serve as a lifeline to thousands of communities where airlines do not fly, while contributing a fraction of total U.S. air traffic congestion.

Mike Pompeo

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South Wales is a hub of aviation.

Bruce Dickinson

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You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

Janet Napolitano

FocusJobWorldYouNeedAviation

I'd manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else.

Louis R. Chenevert

MoreAviationIndustryThanAnybody

I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.

Annie Jacobsen

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If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

Graham Hawkes

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I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

Joseph Force Crater

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The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations.

Anthony Albanese

FreeYouNewThreeAviationAir

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

Freeman Dyson

MistakesEngineeringAviationLeast

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

Steve Fossett

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There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

Chesley Sullenberger

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The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

Wilson Greatbatch

SpaceGlobalizationWillAviation

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Bertrand Piccard

HistoryInspireNewAviationUs

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.

Tony Fernandes

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Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.

Chesley Sullenberger

MedicalAviationWithinSystemFar

I think it's inevitable that aviation is a part of the economic growth that surrounds airports.

Tim Griffin

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I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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