Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and pull back just a little on the stick. ... " One might as well explain music by saying that the further over to the right you hit the piano the higher it will sound. The makings… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share
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
