Yves Rossy Quotes

Flight without feathers is not easy.

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

Connor Broekhart was born to fly, or more accurately he was born flying.

I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science.

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways.

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

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

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere —are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.

If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.