Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground.
The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.
The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.
It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.
