Atmosphere Quote by Auguste Piccard

As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing…

— Auguste Piccard

Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow,…

— Ginger Rogers

Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of…

— Paul Johnson

I feel we are going to enter an era comparable in its progress to that in which the airplane advanced... Its just a matter…

— Dr Robert H Goddard

I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when…

— John Fowles

“Show me a cultural relativist at thirty thousand feet and I’ll show you a hypocrite. Airplanes built according to scientific principles work. They stay…

— Richard Dawkins

There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy me, have…

— Vannevar Bush

Europe embraces new ideas in transportation like no other region in the world and is uniquely positioned to take the next great leap in…

— Shervin Pishevar

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but…

— Bill Bryson