Aviation Progress Quotes

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.

But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man will rise from earth by means of wings, if only for a few seconds, and mark that historical moment which heralds the inauguration of a new era in our civilization.

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.

I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.

It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

In the '20s they were telling us we'd all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.