Plato Quotes

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

Flight without feathers is not easy.

To fly we have to have resistance.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

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.

I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.

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

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

A bumblebee can't fly. He's aerodynamically unsound. But he doesn't know that.

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.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

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.

I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky.

Drive over to the nearest airport, and enroll in flight classes. You will experience the joy of freedom in the air above, as you study the mechanics of how this is made possible by understanding the construction, the laws of motion, the air that can provide lift when it is moved by propulsion through the air, and stay above the gravity pulling the airplane back down to earth.

All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

Start using your wings; they need some exercise.