Predictions Quotes - Page 4

• The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

  Oliver Stewart

  Class, May, Aviation

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• The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.

  Hugo Eckener

  Ocean, Aviation, Aeroplanes

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• 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

  Airplane, Navy, Battle

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• Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.

  Arthur Whitten Brown

  People, Aviation, Oh Well

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• This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am sure, become one of the most popular. Many of us will perish before then, but that prospect will not dismay the braver spirits. . . . It is so delicious to fly like a bird!

  Marie Marvingt

  Sports, Bird, Spirit

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• [Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

  Paul Henderson

  Jobs, Fads, Serious

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• This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.

  Harry Frank Guggenheim

  Aviation, Doomed, Fellows

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• The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

  Hermann Goring

  Razors, Aviation, Blades

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• A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

  H. G. Wells

  Stars, Hands, Laughing

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• 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 kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Flying, Feelings, Machines

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• 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 love the sky's unbroken solitude. I don't like to think of it cluttered up by aircraft, as roads are cluttered up by cars. I feel like the western pioneer when he saw barbed-wire fence lines encroaching on his open plains. The success of his venture brought the end of the life he loved.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Thinking, Years, Sky

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• 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 a very, very rapid rate.

  Allan Haines Loughead

  Distance, Past, Eras

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• Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The example of the bird does not prove that man can fly. Imagine the proud possessor of the aeroplane darting through the air at a speed of several hundred feet per second. It is the speed alone that sustains him. How is he ever going to stop?

  Simon Newcomb

  Future, Men, Air

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

  Octave Chanute

  Believe, Machines, Flight

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• The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently.

  Emile Berliner

  Technology, Land, Doors

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• The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be fast, they will be used in sport, but they are not to be thought of as commercial carriers.

  Octave Chanute

  Sports, Special, Machines

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• It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Our Generation, Air, Tasks

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• I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

  Victor Hugo

  Believe, Air, Water

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• 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 as wellknown as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads.

  Harry Bruno

  Teenage, War, School

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• The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.

  George Brett

  Air, Research, Doe

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• With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.

  Glenn Curtiss

  Eye, Lines, Aviation

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• There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.

  Peter Lynch

  Fall, Weekend, Thinking

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• Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy is so freely used to-day, so atomic energy may bring interplantary travel within easy reach to-morrow.

  P. E. Cleator

  Future, Energy, Use

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• My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Moon, Dancing

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• There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Flying, Grandfather

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