Ed Dwight Quotes

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization

I really love flying, but it's really nice to jump on a plane, sit back, and let someone else do the heavy lifting, but flying is my main passion for sure.

I did a little bit of flying in high school, but I've just always been inspired and excited about airplanes.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.

I always keep a plane on the pole at the airport.

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

When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes.

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

The future is in the skies.

I talk about airplanes and things like that while my scars are on clear view.

From a cell to a jet call it Con-Air

Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

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

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.