Predictions Quotes

342 Predictions quotes by 251 unique authors

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service. — Unknown Author
The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and… — Oliver Stewart
The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete. — Oliver Stewart
In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly… — Philip Gibbs
It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment… — Unknown Author
The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the… — Richard van der Riet Woolley
The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades. — Hermann Goring
The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and… — George Brett
Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be… — Unknown Author
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your… — Igor Sikorsky
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it… — Unknown Author
We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at… — Unknown Author
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I… — Charles Lindbergh
Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb. — Juan Trippe
Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by… — Igor Sikorsky
The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. — James Smith McDonnell
Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped.… — Yuri Gagarin
I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we still… — Hugh Latimer Dryden
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to… — Beryl Markham
To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps. — Unknown Author
There are no practical alternatives to air transportation. — Daniel Goldin
Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have… — Unknown Author
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight. — Bertrand Piccard

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