Adolf Galland Quotes

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.

The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

The aviation industry, including combat air force, has been traditionally developing here. It is the Russian Far East where the SU aircraft, which are well known worldwide, are manufactured.

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.

When I was up on my first flight, we were really putting it together. So, I was essentially a construction worker.

It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.

The core businesses are transforming in very futuristic ways. You know, our aviation business, very interesting things are going on, and unmanned vehicles, drone technology, and things like that.

I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

Anytime I fly anywhere, I think... well, this could be it. I try so hard not to think like that, but I just can't get my head around the concept that this gigantic piece of machinery is 35,000 feet in the air, and I'm sitting in it.

By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new gadgets.

Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable.

We're not getting a good return on investment on all that money we're pumping into the intelligence community. One of the first things I would suggest is that if there's an attack and they fail to stop it or to alert us before it happens, that we ought to start cutting their budget, and for every attack they should lose ten percent of their budget.

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

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

There is also a huge potential for developing the aviation and space industries. As you might have noticed we have launched a new Russian spaceport in one of the Far Eastern regions.