Airplane Quote by Igor Sikorsky Download Open image “Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.” — Igor Sikorsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Airplane Miracle Science
Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a… — William A. Patterson Copy Share Image
Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to… — Walter Guido Vincenti Copy Share Image
“Even NASA’s most respected engineers have admitted to me, in private, that designing and building a supersonic airliner was a greater technological challenge than… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century. — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology. — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot, — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost. — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward. — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
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… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork. — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I shoot in black and white, sometimes color, sometimes if it looks good I shoot out the window of the airplanes or whatever, anything… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money. — Marc Reisner Copy Share Image
We live in a world where it has become politically correct to avoid absolutes. Many want all religions to be given the same honor,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly. — Len Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to… — George Nethercutt Copy Share Image
I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor, I said,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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