Aircraft Quote by Adolf Galland

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

— Octave Chanute

“There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with…

— Jasper Fforde

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

— Henri Coanda

To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment two types…

— Octave Chanute

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with. My opinion…

— Henri Coanda

I suppose I built my share of model airplanes, but I can't remember that I was a flying fanatic.

— Gus Grissom

We're going to design future cars the way people design airplanes. Except we have to use so much technology and ingenuity to reduce its…

— Jensen Huang

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

— Stephen Colletti

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

— Dane Cook

In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

— Philip Gibbs

I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly…

— Alexander Graham Bell

The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was…

— Burt Rutan