William Law Quotes

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.

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

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.

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

Men will sometimes fly, but it will not be in our lifetime.

I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

From the time I was a little itty-bitty kid, I was going to the airport every day. I began to study all the airplanes, and I'd draw all the airplanes.

It still amazes me, when I go out and fly the T-38, and I'm looking at those little, short, skinny little wings, and that thing's flying. It's just amazing to me, even now.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

There's something just magical about flight. Period.

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.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly faster and higher is like trying to build an aeroplane by making locomotives faster and lighter - with a lot of effort, perhaps you could get something that more or less works, but it really isn't the right way to proceed.

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

I love flying planes.

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

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.