To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.
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.
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.
Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.
It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.
From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.
I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
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