Jet Engines Quotes

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.

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.

Rocket engines generally are simpler than jet engines, not more complicated.

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.

In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.

Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class?

whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.