Flight Quotes

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

“Vieni, vola, vola, vola, e vola via!”

“The world in general has learned to mock at the idea of a flying machine.”

“The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be.”

“I felt like an eagle, soaring over the world in a silent, effortless glide.”

“The helicopter approaches closer than any other vehicle to untethered flight.”

“The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.”