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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.

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

Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere.

We will never get to the flying car era. We will get to the era where we get flying drones that haul people, though.

The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

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

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.