#aircraft

There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity... ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#aircraft #airships #engine #mankind #money

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#bullet #closes #like #military #passes

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#aircraft #became #become #being #curious

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#am #best #could #driven #existence

It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#balance #did #squadron #tip #twelve

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance. ↗

— Paul Martin

#canada #cities #distance #down #endless

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it. ↗

— Albert Speer

#cases #detailed #dropped #feign #given

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing. ↗

— Howard Hughes

#built #ever #hercules #i #into

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#also #around #coast #cohesion #down

After a few minutes Jim was forced to admit that he could recognize none of the constellations. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change. For all their movements, the Japanese aircraft were its only fixed points, a second zodiac above the broken land. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#constellations #state-of-change #war #world-war-two #change