Fighter Jets Quotes

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

I love flying and kind of just fascinated with it, and to fly something like an F-22 would be a blast.

Living my early years in Ludhiana, the Halwara base of the Indian Air Force was very close to our house. I would see jets cruise over my head.

I remember, as a kid, we would go and watch the Red Arrows, and I thought it was similar to British wrestlers and the acrobatic division.

I loved 'Top Gun.' I watched it all growing up.

I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

I hated 'Top Gun.'

We expect to be a prime in the fighter jet business for the long run. This is not a business we're getting out of at all.

I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953.

We're a poorer country. You've seen how we're stealing airplane parts for our fighter jets. We're going to do something that will make you very proud.

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

Party conferences don't purchase fighter jets.

I am of course thinking here about new planes such as the Sukhois. There is very little discussion about such developments but, for me, I am constantly astonished by the current developments within the Russian airforce.

Well, I would turn into a dragon and fly you home, but something tells me you would protest. (Sebastian) No doubt. I imagine the scales would also chafe my skin. (Channon) True. Not to mention, I once learned the hard way that they really do call the military out on you. You know, fighter jets are hard to dodge when you have a forty-foot wingspan. (Sebastian)

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.

I was with a Navy F-18 squadron, and I know a single squadron could finish off the entire Sudanese air force in a day.

We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.

You see where the fighter jets are so old that they can't get parts anymore. They have to go to plane - airplane graveyards and museums to get parts for our fighter jets that we're currently using. They don't make the parts. And you have other countries that have brand new equipment. And in some cases, we sell them the equipment. The whole thing is ridiculous.