Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.
Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Flight without feathers is not easy.