Bongiovi Aviation Quotes

#1. There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. #Quote by Chesley Sullenberger

#2. Four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2
ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat. #Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

#3. Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls. #Quote by Aristotle.

#4. The future of aviation human factors lies primarily with the discipline of individual flyers, not high-powered training programs, 3D simulation, or advanced technology aircraft. #Quote by Tony Kern

#5. There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots. #Quote by Louise Thaden

#6. To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck! #Quote by Jimmy Doolittle

#7. Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. #Quote by Freeman Dyson

#8. Good flying never killed an enemy yet. #Quote by Mick Mannock

#9. The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen. #Quote by Richard Bach

#10. Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful! #Quote by Gabriele D'Annunzio

#11. Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do. #Quote by Theodore Von Karman

#12. Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights. #Quote by Oswald Boelcke

#13. To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. #Quote by Nevil Shute

#14. A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot economist [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Environmental head bangers are talking nonsense when they claim that aviation is the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions. Coal-fired and oil-fired power stations are the biggest contributor of carbon but I have yet to hear any fearless eco warriors advocating nuclear power as they drive around in their SUVs to their next protest meeting. #Quote by Michael O'Leary

#15. Aviators live by hours, not by days. #Quote by T.H. White

#16. Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing patches of stratus that lay in the valleys as heavy and white as glaciers. North for the first time. It was still an adventure, as exciting as love, as frightening. #Quote by James Salter

#17. The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. #Quote by Wendell Willkie

#18. Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket. #Quote by Bevo Howard

#19. I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society. #Quote by Lord Kelvin

#20. We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. That is our object, and we shall pursue it relentlessly. #Quote by Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

#21. No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer. #Quote by Hermann Goring

#22. Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.' #Quote by Adolph Malan

#23. I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly. #Quote by Winston Churchill

#24. Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs. #Quote by Hermann Goring

#25. I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there. #Quote by Kevin A. Ford

#26. Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction. #Quote by Giulio Douhet

#27. Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then repeat the process. I never pursued the enemy once they had eluded me. Better to break off and set up again for a new assault. I always began my attacks from full strength, if possible, my ideal flying height being 22,000 ft because at that altitude I could best utilize the performance of my aircraft. Combat flying is based on the slashing attack and rough maneuvering. #Quote by Erich Hartmann

#28. I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely ... all of them are losers. Most of these guys are smoking ragweed. #Quote by Gordon Bethune

#29. We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight. #Quote by Richard Bach

#30. 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. #Quote by Tom Wolfe

#31. Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders. #Quote by Richard Branson

#32. Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area. #Quote by Adolph Malan

#33. Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not support them, then so be it. NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be frank, honest, and informative. #Quote by Richard P. Feynman

#34. By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course of human progress. If he had not lived the entire history of progress in flying would have been other than it has been. #Quote by Wilbur Wright

#35. Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic. #Quote by John Wilkins