Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one;… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong. — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
