Computers Quote by Orville Wright

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

— Octave Chanute

I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took…

— Arthur P. Warner

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping…

— Igor Sikorsky

No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person,

— Leo Fender

“The existence of birds demonstrated that heavier-than-air flight was physically possible and prompted efforts to build flying machines. Yet the first functioning airplanes did…

— Nick Bostrom

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

— Lord Kelvin

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

— Simon Newcomb

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Gus Grissom

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

— Henri Coanda

I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it…

— Alan Bean

It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.

— David Blatt