Flying Machine Quotes

20 quotes by 14 authors

• The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with… — Lawrence Hargrave
• Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but… — Octave Chanute
• Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees… — Lawrence Hargrave
• Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to… — Neil Armstrong
• Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong,… — Guy Murchie
• To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment two types of… — Octave Chanute
• It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the… — Thomas A. Edison
• There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or flying… — George W. Melville
• 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 constructed… — Alexander Graham Bell
• Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible? — Joseph LeConte
• I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This… — Henri Coanda
• My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30… — Lawrence Hargrave
• One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Two: The animal… — Joseph LeConte
• We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when… — Gene Cernan
• These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with. My opinion is… — Henri Coanda
• Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along… — Eoin Colfer
• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. — Orville Wright
• I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying… — Wilbur Wright
• In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. — Henri Coanda
• It fell like a tear from my eye, flying machine so up high. Well... there goes the neighborhood. — Brandon Boyd

Who Wrote These Flying Machine Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 20 Flying Machine Quotes as follows:

• 3 Flying Machine Quotes by Henri Coanda
• 3 Flying Machine Quotes by Lawrence Hargrave
• 2 Flying Machine Quotes by Octave Chanute
• 2 Flying Machine Quotes by Joseph LeConte
• 1 Flying Machine Quote by Neil Armstrong
• 1 Flying Machine Quote by Guy Murchie
• 1 Flying Machine Quote by Thomas A. Edison
• 1 Flying Machine Quote by George W. Melville
• 1 Flying Machine Quote by Alexander Graham Bell
• 1 Flying Machine Quote by Gene Cernan
• 1 Flying Machine Quote by Eoin Colfer
• 1 Flying Machine Quote by Orville Wright
• 1 Flying Machine Quote by Wilbur Wright
• 1 Flying Machine Quote by Brandon Boyd