Orville Wright Quotes

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

What goes up must come down.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

If I snowboard, I will eat it.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.

Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.

It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.

We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

I jumped off a platform, was supposed to land on a roof and slide down it, but I cleared the roof and landed on my ankle - snapped that to one side.

The pink ball is a bit different. I don't think it moves as much through the air.

I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.

As a jumper, I try to defy gravity as long as I can. But no matter how far I jump, I'll always hit the earth eventually.

Flying as Bob, there was always stress involved.

When you throw the ball 50 times, there are going to be some that are inaccurate.

There are different stages when you fly. The first stage is the dollhouse effect, seeing everything on Earth like it's a model. Suddenly, all of your concerns seem very small.

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.